Volume 11, Plate XXIII / Mammalia (Mammals)

Takhaitze

Antilope barbata

Standing generally four and a half to five feet high, the Takhaitze is bluish like the Nyl-gau, though sometimes tawny brown, both sexes bearing horns that curve backward and are ringed to within a third of the point. First met near Latakoo, it is exceedingly shy and dangerous when wounded, entrapped in covered pits rather than speared; it grazes at the edge of the Karroo plains near mimosa-clad hills, mostly in pairs or small herds.