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The Kudu 
T HIS large an-te-lope has long horns 
each of which twists spirally up, 
but which are spread wide apart at 
the top. His dark red-brown coat is marked 
with narrow white stripes, and there are 
white spots on his cheeks, throat, and legs. 
He lives in places in Africa where there is 
thick bush, whether hilly or flat. He likes 
the young and tender shoots of trees and 
shrubs, especially when, in the dry season, the grass has burned off, and 
the new grass is not yet grown. He has a fringe of long hair on his neck. 
The Hooded Cobra 
S TEP very far back, quite out of the way, for 
this snake is just about to strike. When he 
is excited, he lifts up his head in such a way 
that his neck spreads out flat, and that makes him 
look as if he had on a hood. This sort of snake 
is found only in Southern Asia and Africa. He is 
sometimes more than seven feet long. He lives 
mainly on other snakes smaller than himself. On 
the back of his head are strange markings, which 
look as if he had on a pair of spectacles, so he is 
also called the “spectacled” snake. His bite is 
poisonous and generally kills a man, though he 
rare-ly bites unless trodden upon. 
The Guib 
T 
HIS kind of an-te-lope is called “harnessed” because the strange 
markings in white along his back and sides make him look as if he 
wore a harness. He is larger than a goat, but not as large as a 
• > horse. The horns are about two feet long. 
These guibs are found in Africa, which is 
a regular men-ag-er-ie of animals, because 
it has so many different kinds. These are 
red-brown in color, so the white stripes 
show off very plainly. Guibs live in places 
where dense bushes come down to the edge 
of some stream or lake. There is a white 
line down the middle of the back also. 
