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Re: Tsessebe - Animal of the Month February 2015

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They are slightly smaller and darker lol

Not many places where you can confuse them O** but both occur in Mokala NP and Pilanesberg :-)


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Re: Tsessebe - Animal of the Month February 2015

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:ty: Toko. The red hartebeest has also black upper legs and on some of the tsessebes the shoulderblade is not black, so not that easy. I'll count more on the distribution as Toko says \O


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maybe could help a little bit... I think of the colours

Tsessebe................................ Red Hartebeest (Kgalagadi 25.3.2013
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Re: Tsessebe - Animal of the Month February 2015

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Look at the horns, backwards vs upwards O**


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Exactly! that's what I meant in my first post; one looks like Lucifer and the other is just a goat =O:


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nan, your leaping tsessebe pics are \O \O \O


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A great female speciman ..Tropic of Capricorn road NE of Mopani
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The right "burnt" colours ^Q^ ^Q^ \O


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They are ugly but beautiful ^Q^


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"Specimen"... :twisted:


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