Biodiversity

Uganda kob

Kobus kob thomasi

Photo: Charles J. Sharp, via Wikimedia Commons (resized). CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Uganda kob is a reddish antelope of grassy plains near water, and is on Uganda’s coat of arms. Driberg wrote of the “Uganda cob” among the antelope found everywhere in Lango, and several clans, such as the Jo Arakit, do not eat its flesh or keep its hide.

Habitat

Grassland near water.

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