gemsbuck

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gemsbuck - large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks

gemsbok, Oryx gazella

oryx, pasang - large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns

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At the Erindi auction, there were many animals offered which can only be described as types or mutants for instance white springbuck, black springbuck, golden gemsbuck, and white blesbuck.

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In the meantime, high-value game like rhinos, buffaloes, sable, golden wildebeest, golden gemsbuck, blacknose impala.

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At the same auction, so-called golden gemsbuck (oryx) fetched around N$900,000 per animal while the usual exorbitant prices were paid for sable, roan, tsessebe, white rhino, black-faced impala and even waterbuck.