- a variation of kudu.
koodoo
Americannoun
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koodoos
plural
noun
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Did he understand that it was not fresh game but the wounded koodoo that I wanted?
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
I only saw spoor and began to palpitate with thoughts of bagging a koodoo bull.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
I could not hear the name or see the spoor of koodoo without a pang of regret and the thought that never again would such a chance occur.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
I made a dash for the chance of a running shot, but it was too late, and all we saw was half a dozen beautiful koodoo disappearing among the tree stems.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
I fired again as the koodoo recovered himself, but he was then seventy or eighty yards away and partly hidden at times by trees and scrub.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
The other party, it appeared, had by a long détour encircled a whole herd of koodoos, elands, and others—all of the antelope species.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
It consisted chiefly of the flesh of one of the koodoos, and was partly broiled and partly sodden.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
We have, however, still herds of antelopes of all kinds, springboks, gemsboks, elands, koodoos, hartebeests, and gnus.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
On their way down the river, buffaloes were observed in small droves, as also herds of koodoos and zebras.
From The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid
We met as before buffaloes, elands, koodoos, and various antelopes.
From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by William Henry Giles Kingston
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