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bushbuck
[ boosh-buhk ]
noun
- a large African antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of wooded and bushy regions, having a reddish body streaked or spotted with white.
bushbuck
/ ˈbʊʃˌbʌk /
noun
- a small nocturnal spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus , of the bush and tropical forest of Africa. Its coat is reddish-brown with a few white markings
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I don’t know that there’s any kind of trophic cascade expected from the dogs where the change in bushbuck diet is going to yield a major change in Gorongosa vegetation.
It’s going to change bushbuck diet, which might change the way bushbuck compete with some other browsers and grazers, which might influence the ability of some other things to get better established.
The film shows how bushbuck—which are named bushbuck because they’re often hiding behind termite mounds in little patches of foliage—were wandering out onto the floodplain and eating different food.
But since the incident at the wind-up of the bushbuck hunt the estrangement had widened.
They had left the main body to get up a bushbuck hunt on the banks of the Bashi.
"Hartebeest, bushbuck and antelope," replied the explorer calmly.
Sometimes we have kongoni steaks, at other times we have the heart of waterbuck or the liver of bushbuck or impalla.
A bushbuck with fifteen-inch horns is considered a fine prize, although horns of nineteen inches are on record.
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