Greater kudu

A kudu bull is the antelope people photograph twice: his horns open into long spirals of up to three full turns and can reach about 6 feet. Cows have no horns, so look instead for the huge, rounded ears, six to ten thin white stripes down the flanks and a white chevron between the eyes, all of which the bull shares. Kudu are browsers of woodland, scrub and open forest across eastern and southern Africa, so scan thicket edges rather than open grassland. A large hornless antelope with big round ears and thin white stripes, standing half-hidden in bush, is very likely a kudu cow.