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gerenuk|ˈgɛrɛnuːk|
Also geranook, gerenook.
[Somali name.]
A long-necked gazelle-like antelope of East Africa, Litocranius walleri.
1895H. G. C. Swayne 17 Trips through Somaliland 312 The Gerenuk is the commonest and most widely distributed of the Somali Antelopes. 1895[see dik-dik]. 1915Roosevelt & Heller Life-hist. Afr. Game Animals II. xviii. 610 The gerenuk was first described by Sir Victor Brooke [in 1878]. 1965New Scientist 26 Aug. 505/1 Arid-country species like gerenuks never need to drink water. 1970Ibid. 24 Sept. 639/2 A famous zoo breeding group of gerenuk or giraffe-necked antelope are now failing to be as productive. |