Article: The African Antelope.

Actually, the title is superfluous, since antelopes are found only in Africa, with a few in Asia. No antelopes are found in the New World. We often call the pronghorn a pronghorn antelope, but it is not an antelope. Pronghorns and antelopes do belong to the same order of mammals, Artiodactyla, but they are each in a different family.

Antelope is a common name applied to a large group of hollow-homed ruminants; the group comprises about 150 species. The antelopes range in size from the tiny royal antelope, 10 inches at the shoulder and about the size of a rabbit, to the giant eland, almost 6 feet in height and weighing about 1500 pounds.

The giant eland ...

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