The waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) is an enormous antelope with a darkish, shaggy coat, found all through sub-Saharan Africa. Solely male waterbucks have horns, though females usually have small horn bumps. Their prolonged horns develop backwards and steadily curve forwards in a crescent kind. 

The IUCN classes waterbucks as least concern, though their inhabitants is declining. Their numbers are sturdy in protected areas, nonetheless in a variety of their former differ, they’ve sadly gone extinct as a consequence of looking. 

16. Okapi 

Though they seem very like zebras with their striped legs, okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are further rigorously related to giraffes. In fact, they’re giraffes solely dwelling shut relative. The okapi’s horns are very small protuberances, very like the horns of a giraffe, and they also’re known as ossicones. Solely males have ossicones. The IUCN classes okapi as endangered, and so they’re solely found inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the place they face threats of habitat loss and looking. 

17. Royal antelope 

Royal antelopes (Neotragus pygmaeus), current in West Africa, are the smallest antelopes on the earth. Solely males have horns, which can be fast, skinny, and principally straight, and they also degree backwards. The IUCN classes the royal antelope as least concern, nonetheless its inhabitants is declining. In some areas, they face bushmeat looking, and they also moreover develop into caught in snares set for various animals. 

18. Jackson’s chameleon