TIANG 
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the game-country of Sudan, and though in the main 
a denizen of the open prairie, yet in the south we con¬ 
stantly found these antelopes in forests denser than 
I ever saw hartebeests frequent elsewhere. Tiang drink 
twice a day; in the mornings very early, before it is 
light enough to see, for dawn discovers them slowly 
grazing away from the riverside. 1 Owing to this 
dependence upon water, tiang, in a dry season, are never 
found far inland, usually within a few miles provided 
pasturage is plentiful. In places where their feeding- 
grounds lie further back, they are restless and unsettled 
Tiang AT Midday— Zeraf River, February 19th, 1913. 
while passing through the intermediate belt, snatching 
a mouthful here and there and keeping a keen look-out. 
In such places it is time wasted to trouble them; better 
seek them out at their permanent pasturages. 
After their pre-dawn drink and a morning’s feed, 
tiang are most playful animals. I have watched a herd 
of sixty or eighty performing a regular series of evolu¬ 
tions, galloping wildly around in circles—opposing, con¬ 
centric, and elliptic — bucking and leap-frogging over 
one another’s backs, as though in terror. At first I 
1 Whereas, as just described, tiang habitually drink at least twice every 
day, yet by one of those inexplicable paradoxes that confront one in 
Nature, its nearest relative the korrigum is exclusively confined (as regards 
the Sudan) to the arid Deserts of Western Kordofan, where no water exists, 
and where thirst can only be allayed by digging up the bitter melon. 
