Bushbuck
Afrikaans name : Bosbok
Scientific name : (Tragelaphus scriptus) 

Family : Tragelaphini tribe / spiral-horned antelopes of Africa.
Region : throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, from sea level to mountain slope
Habitat : dense woodland; forest; thickets; near water, a forest edge antelope, preferring to inhabit areas of dense cover, rarely seen on the open grasslands.
Weight : almost 80 kg
Features : large ears and eyes, a rounded striped back and spotted flanks, with hindquarters more developed than forequarters; cryptically coloured and disruptively marked, one of the prettier antelope.
Horns :  26-27cm horns (males) / one twist and virtually straight.
Height : up to 1m high (adult male). 
Food : Wide range of food types. They browse on herbs and shrubby leguminous plants and fruit and sometimes remain for hours beneath certain flowering trees, especially the sausage tree (Kigelia africana). They eat tender new grass and  can drink water by licking dew from vegetation.
Habits : only leaves cover when drawn into the open by choice food plants and perhaps the presence of other bushbuck. It is the only strictly solitary tragelaphine, they are not seen very often and scurry away quickly when disturbed.
Young : Calves stay attatched to their mothers until another calf is born. They do not accompany their mothers for the first four months of their lives. 
Maturity : 11 months.
Predators : lions, hyenas,