Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools
Identifier: brehmslifeofanim00breh (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; PechuLoesche, Eduard, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior
Publisher: Chicago : Marquis
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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500 THE CLOVEN-HOOFED ANIMALS. lyre shape, ringed along their whole length, slender and long. The Addax is repeatedly found depicted on Egyptian monuments. The horns which adorn the head of the sculptured images of the gods, of the priests and kings of ancient Egypt, are patterned after the horns of this Antelope. From Egypt the reputation of the animal spread and the Greeks and Romans were familiar with it. The Addax (Addax nasomaculatus) is of rather clumsy physical proportions. The hairy coat is thickset and, with the exception of that covering a few places about the body, is short and coarse. In front of the base of the horns there is a tuft hang- ing over the forehead; a strip of rather long, hair extends from the ear to the back of the head; the chiefs of the wandering tribes of Bedouins regard it as being one of the noblest animals that can be hunted, and pursue it partly for the sake of its flesh, partly to test the speed of their Horses and Grey- hounds, and partly to capture the young, which they rear. Living specimens have repeatedly been kept and observed in various zoological gardens. Their con- duct shows how nearly allied they are to the Oryx; for they are just as capricious and quarrelsome as the latter. Exceptions have been observed, how- ever. If kept on plain food, these Antelopes bear long captivity easily and propagate themselves with- out any special difficulty, as the animals are by na- ture fitted to bear privations.
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THE ADDAX. —A heavy and rather ungainly species of Antelop< st of the horns this animal is specially marked by a tuft of long dark hai fore part of the neck is adorned by a long mane. During the cool season the yellowish white hue gradually merges into gray. Young animals are of a pure white color. The body measures six feet eight inches in length, and the height at the withers rather exceeds forty inches. The range of the Addax embraces the heart of northern Africa, King south of the eighteenth paral- lel of north latitude, from the Nile "country to the Lake Tchad region. It inhabits the most arid regions, in which, as the nomads say, not a drop of water can be found for miles around. If the stories of these people are to be believed, the animal can abstain from water for months. It is shy and timid, like the rest of the Antelopes, agile and hardy, but exposed to a great deal of persecution. The the Addax, wh the forehead and a lighter one on the neck. (Addax SPIRAL HORNED ANTELOPES. The Spiral Horned Antelopes (Strepsiceros) com- prise large Antelopes with spirally twisted, com- pressed and acutely-angled horns, borne only by the males, and a fur relieved by stripes or otherwise marked in light colors. The Koodoo a A representative of this group is the Large,Stately stately Koodoo (Strepsiceros kudu), Animal. aa Antelope surpassing the Euro- pean Stag in size. Adult males measure about ten feet in length, from the nose to the tip of the tail, the latter organ being about twenty inches long. The height at the withers is five feet eight inches, and the weight ranges from six hundred pounds up- wards. The doe is considerably smaller. In its bodily structure the Koodoo resembles the Stag in

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