Word: kudu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starter, Dr. De Kock & Co. plan to drive every last wild animal in a 400-square-mile area - kudu, wildebeests, wart hogs, hyenas, zebras, duikers, baboons, storks, vultures, rats - into a small game reserve deep in the forest. They will not be slaughtered, though many surely will be killed before the drive ends. Ultimately the reserve will be ringed by a cordon sanitaire of cleared ground, two miles wide, which the tsetse presumably will not cross...
...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...
...lordly account of the lordly kudu, see Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa...