Word: duiker
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...South African Government ordered the slaughter of 15,000 game animals in Zululand. The hope was that no game would mean no nagana. The great Hluhluwe Reserve, last home of the white rhinoceros, will not be invaded, but in the surrounding areas the waterbuck and hartebeest, the dainty duiker and the lordly kudu*-all the smooth-haunched animals on whose bellies the tsetse feeds-will be exterminated by professional hunters under supervision of the government...
...African continent are to be secured for inspection by the U. S. public and its children: lions and pygmy mice (bumblebee size); black rhinoceroses and hyraxes; giraffes; eland (the Zoo has but one aged cow); sable and pygmy antelope, fringe-eared oryx, topi, hartebeest, bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise...