Bushbuck Antelope Tragelaphus Scriptu

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These are the Bushbuck Antelopes (Tragelaphus scriptu) located in the Tusher African Hall at The California Academy of Sciences. Beautiful and elegant these Antelope live in Sub-Saharan Africa. The males horns can reach up to 57 cm long. Communication is done through scent-marking rather than vocalization. They are mainly browsers and eat a wide variety of plant species, herbs, leaves, twigs, and flowers. They prefer knobbly creeper and the sausage tree. The females have a reddish coat and the males have a darker coat. Be sure to visit.