THE PUKU 



white below with black markings down the fronts 

 of the fore and hind limbs, darkest above the knee. 

 The head, face and upper part of the neck are pale 

 yellow-brown. The tail, which reaches to above 

 the hocks, has a tuft of long black hairs at the end. 



The female closely resembles the male, but is 

 smaller and has no horns. The young males have 

 black tips to the ears. 



The horns are more curved than those of the 

 Waterbuck, and are ringed to within a few inches 

 of the tips, which are black and curve strongly 

 forward. 



THE PUKU 



(Cobus vardoni) 



Impuku of the Masubias ; Muntinya of Barotse ; Seula of Chilala 

 and Chibisa. 



The Puku formerly inhabited the upper parts of the 

 Zambesi . valley and its tributaries, and extended 

 through the Barotse country as far north as Lake 

 Mweru on the borders of north-eastern Rhodesia 

 and Belgian Congo. It is, however, almost, if not 

 quite, extinct south of the Zambesi, where its range 

 was at the best of times a limited one. 



The Puku Antelope associate in herds which vary 

 in numbers from three or four to a dozen. In 

 former times, when they were more plentiful and 

 not harassed by European hunters, as many as fifty 

 were often seen in a herd. Small herds of old rams 



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