ANTELOPE
Any of numerous kinds of even-toed, hoofed mammals belonging to the cow
family, Bovidae. Most antelopes are lightly built and good runners.
They are grazers or browsers, and chew the cud. They range in size from
the dik-diks and duikers, only 1 ft/30 cm high, to the eland, which can
be 6 ft/1.8 m at the shoulder.
The majority of antelopes are african, including the eland, gnu (wildebeest),
kudu, springbok, and waterbuck, although other species live in Asia, including
the deserts of Arabia and the Middle East. The pronghorn antelope Antilocapra
americana of North America belongs to a different family, the Antilocapridae.
