Game Species Kalahari | Tosca | North West African Wild Cat Black Wildebeest N/A for hunting Available to hunt Description Description The African wildcat's fur is light sandy grey, and sometimes with a This member of the antelope family is an ox-like animal with unusual pale yellow or reddish hue, but almost whitish on the belly and on the horns, a beard, and hair on his nose. He is dark brown in colour with a throat. The ears have small tufts, are reddish to grey, with long light horse-like tail, which is almost pure white. As such, he is sometimes yellow hairs around the pinna. The stripes around the face are dark referred to as the white-tailed gnu. The blue wildebeest remained in its ochre to black: two run horizontally on the cheek from the outer original range and changed very little from the ancestral species, while the corner of the eye to the jaw, a smaller one from the inner corner of black wildebeest changed more as adaptation to its open grassland habitat in the south. the eye to the rhinarium, and four to six across the throat. The most obvious way of telling the two species apart are the differences Two dark rings encircle the forelegs, and hind legs are striped. in their colouring and in the way their horns are oriented. Blesbok (Brown) Brown hyena Available to hunt N/A for hunting Description Description Physically, rams and ewes are similar. Their mass can be as much as Brown hyenas are distinguished from other species by their long 85 kg. A characteristic of the Blesbok is the prominent white blaze on shaggy coat and pointed ears, a dark brown coat and a short tail. the face and a horizontal brown strip which divides this blaze above the eyes. Their legs are striped brown and white, and adults have a distinct cream-coloured fur ruff around their necks. Body colour is brown with a lighter coloured saddle on the back, and the rump an even lighter shade. The legs are brown with a white patch behind the top part. Duiker (common) Eland (cape/common) Available to hunt Available to hunt Description Description Duikers are split into two groups based on their habitat - forest and Mainly an herbivore, its diet is primarily grasses and leaves. Common bush duikers. All forest species inhabit the rainforests of sub-Saharan elands form herds of up to 500 animals, but are not territorial. Africa, while the only known bush duiker, grey common duiker occu- pies savannas. The common eland prefers habitats with a wide variety of flowering plants such as savannah, woodlands, and open and montane grass- Duikers are very shy, elusive creatures with a fondness for dense lands; it avoids dense forests. It uses loud barks, visual and postural cover; those that tend to live in more open areas, for example, are movements and the flehmen response to communicate and warn quick to disappear into thickets for protection. others of danger. Gemsbuck Giraffe Available to hunt N/A for hunting Description Description Gemsbok are light brownish-grey to tan in colour, with lighter patches The giraffe's chief distinguishing characteristics are its extremely long toward the bottom rear of the rump. Their tails are long and black in neck and legs, its horn-like ossicones, and its distinctive coat pat- colour. A blackish stripe extends from the chin down the lower edge terns. It is classified under the family Giraffidae, along with its closest of the neck, through the juncture of the shoulder and leg along the extant relative, the okapi. Its scattered range extends from Chad in lower flank of each side to the blackish section of the rear leg. the north to South Africa in the south, and from Niger in the west to Somalia in the east. Giraffes usually inhabit savannahs and wood- They have muscular necks and shoulders, and their legs have white lands. Their food source is leaves, fruits and flowers of woody plants, 'socks' with a black patch on the front of both the front legs, and both primarily acacia species, which they browse at heights most other genders have long, straight horns. herbivores cannot reach. Blue Wildebeest Impala Available to hunt Available to hunt Description Description This member of the antelope family is an ox-like animal with unusual Active mainly during the day, the impala may be gregarious or territo- horns, a beard, and hair on his nose. As such, he is sometimes rial depending upon the climate and geography. Three distinct social referred to as the brindled gnu. The blue wildebeest remained in its groups can be observed: the territorial males, bachelor herds and original range and changed very little from the ancestral species, female herds. The impala is known for two characteristic leaps that while the black wildebeest changed more as adaptation to its open constitute an anti-predator strategy. grassland habitat in the south. The most obvious way of telling the two species apart are the differ- Browsers as well as grazers, impala feed on monocots, dicots, forbs, ences in their colouring and in the way their horns are oriented. fruits and acacia pods. It features a glossy, reddish brown coat. The male's slender, lyre-shaped horns. Jackal (Black-Backed) King Wildebeest Available to hunt Available to hunt Description Description Compared to other members of the genus Canis, the black-backed In February 2012 Piet du Toit presented the kings wildebeest on his jackal is a very ancient species, and has changed little since the Pleis- first game auction. The bull was sold on that auction for R5,100,000 + tocene, being the most basal wolf-like canine, alongside the closely VAT. After that auction there were many farmers who looked for king related side-striped jackal. It is a fox-like animal with a reddish coat wildebeest. At that stage the king wildebeest was very scarce, and and a black saddle that extends from the shoulders to the base of the many in the game industry was unfamiliar with the king wildebeest. tail. It is a monogamous animal, whose young may remain with the family to help raise new generations of pups. The black-backed jackal A king wildebeest has a grey/blue to dark blue/black colour on his is not a fussy eater, and feeds on small to medium-sized animals, as body, similar to the colour of the ordinary blue wildebeest with a well as plant matter and human refuse. white line on its back from where the mane ends to his rump. Kudu (Greater) Lynx (Caracal) Available to hunt N/A for hunting Description Description Greater kudus have a narrow body with long legs, and their coats can Typically nocturnal, the caracal is highly secretive and difficult to ob- range from brown/bluish grey to reddish brown. They possess serve. It is territorial, and lives mainly alone or in pairs. The caracal is between 4 and 12 vertical white stripes along their torso. The head a carnivore that typically preys upon small mammals, birds, and tends to be darker in colour than the rest of the body, and exhibits a rodents. It can leap higher than 12 ft (3.7 m) and catch birds in mid air. small white chevron which runs between the eyes. Greater kudu bulls It stalks its prey until it is within 5 m (16 ft) of it, after which it runs it tend to be much larger than the cows, and vocalize much more, utiliz- down, the prey being killed by a bite to the throat or to the back of the ing low grunts, clucks, humming, and gasping. The bulls also have neck. large manes running along their throats, and large horns - with the record being 187.64 cm or 73.87 in. The average lifespan of captive caracals is nearly 16 years. Nyala Ostrich Available to hunt Available to hunt Description Description The nyala is mainly active in the early morning and the late afternoon. The ostriches are a family, Struthionidae, of flightless birds. The two It generally browses during the day if temperatures are 20–30 °C extant species of ostrich are the common ostrich and Somali ostrich, (68–86 °F) and during the night in the rainy season. As a herbivore, both in the genus Struthio, which also contains several species known the nyala feeds upon foliage, fruits and grasses, with sufficient fresh from Holocene fossils such as the Asian ostrich. water. A shy animal, it prefers water holes rather than open spaces. The nyala does not show signs of territoriality, and individuals areas The common ostrich is the more widespread of the two living species, can overlap each others. They are very cautious creatures. Old males and is the largest living bird species. Other ostriches are also among live alone, but single sex or mixed family groups of up to 10 individu- the largest bird species ever. als can be found. Porcupine Sable Antelope N/A for hunting POR Description Description Porcupines are large rodents with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, The sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is an antelope which inhabits that protect against predators. The term covers two families of ani- wooded savannah in East Africa south of Kenya, and in Southern mals, the Old World porcupines of family Hystricidae, and the New Africa, with a population in Angola. The sable antelope shares the World porcupines of family Erethizontidae. genus Hippotragus with the extinct bluebuck and the roan antelope, and is a member of the family Bovidae. Both families belong to the infraorder Hystricognathi within the pro- foundly diverse order Rodentia and display superficially similar coats In 1996, an analysis of mitochondrial DNA extracted from a mounted of quills: despite this, the two groups are distinct from each other and specimen of the bluebuck showed that it is outside the clade contain- are not closely related to each other within the Hystricognathi.