"The oribi is a highly-specialised grassland dependant antelope," Wakelin said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The eclectic choice of words used in the three-round final - including 'oribi' and 'zoeal', which are explained below, as well as 'bumbazed' and 'fanion' - shows how technical a high-level game can be. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
oribi (Ourebia oribi) are also found within the ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic] Reference
Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and oribi (Ourebia ourebi) also frequent extensive floodplains and grasslands, although the latter favor less waterlogged areas such as termitaries, where herbs and woody growth provide food and cover. From Wordnik.com. [Zambezian flooded grasslands] Reference
Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche). From Wordnik.com. [Angolan Miombo woodlands] Reference
Large populations of several antelopes are present and include an estimated population of 1,500-2,000 of the endemic grey rhebok Pelea capreolus, 1,000 reedbuck Redunca arundinum, and approximately 2,000 eland Taurotragus oryx; also bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, blue duiker Cephalophus monticola, klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus and oribi Ourebia ourebi. From Wordnik.com. [UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa] Reference
We found thousands of oribi on the Guas Ngishu Plateau. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
Then the oribi were visible everywhere, usually in groups of four or six. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
Shortly afterwards we ran across one oribi, which I shot for our own table. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
The little oribi remembered his instructions and followed them out to the letter. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
From where I stood looking at them hartebeest, kob, waterbuck, and oribi were also all in sight. From Wordnik.com. [VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant] Reference
For instance, there's the oribi and the dik-dik, to say nothing of the steinbuck and the klipspringer. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
I didn't go over to see if the little oribi was still alive, for I was certain that it had been killed. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
There was lots of game for our table, from the most delicious grouse to the oribi, whose meat is the tenderest I have ever eaten. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
I hurried back, and there lay a little oribi only a few hours old and with big, wondering eyes that looked gravely up at me as I bent over it. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
It was quite an exciting adventure for the little oribi and quite incomprehensible to the mother that he had emerged from the peril so safely. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
"On my way in," said the colonel, "I shot an oribi, but when I heard that Heller had shot some ducks I knew that my oribi would not be served.". From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
A list of the different kinds of oribi would take up several lines of valuable space without conveying any illuminating intelligence to the lay mind. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
I could almost hear the mother of the oribi tell the little one when it heard us coming to lay perfectly quiet and not to move the least bit until she came back. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
That bush-clad hill was the favourite haunt of droves of buffaloes and elands, and on that plain swarmed thousands upon thousands of springbok and of quagga, of hartebeest and of oribi. From Wordnik.com. [Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal] Reference
"To-morrow we want kongoni for boys 'meat, or zebra; and some meat for masters-Tommy, impala, oribi," and Memba Sasa knew as well as I did what we needed to fill out our trophy collection. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
Some place near by an anxious mother oribi was watching us with her heart in her mouth, no doubt, and I'm sure that we had not gone many yards before she was back to see what had happened to the little one. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
You couldn't go half a mile in any direction without stirring up large family parties of them, and a landscape looked lonely unless one could see a few oribi bounding over the ant-hills or rising and falling as they leaped through the grass. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
Some of the largest populations of ungulates in southern Africa are found within the ecoregion, including eland (Taurotragus oryx), reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula), grey rhebok (Pelea capreolus), black wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou) and a small population of oribi (Ourebia ourebi). From Wordnik.com. [Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests] Reference
(The grasslands) are the habitat of endangered blue swallow, oribi and endangered plants, "she said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
This area contains a priority wetland, highly biodiverse grasslands areas and is home to flagship conservation species such as the wattled crane and oribi, "Mgwadlamba said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"This property is also considered to be ideal habitat for oribi, therefore once we have established a management plan in cooperation with Mondi, we will look at moving onto the land a population of oribi that might be facing an uncertain future somewhere else. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) are mostly found in areas of short grass close to permanent waters, while Bohor’s reedbuck (Redunca redunca) and oribi (Ourebia ourebi) prefer unstable grasslands that are maintained by flooding, fires, drought or heavy grazing. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Miombo woodlands] Reference
Burchell’s zebra (Equus burchelli), eland (Taurotragus oryx), reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), oribi (Ourebia ourebi), and roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) are described as being indigenous to the montane grassland areas, but it is unlikely that populations of these large mammals survive in the ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic] Reference
Other ungulate species found in the area include tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), oribi (Ourebia ourebi), reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), zebra (Equus burchelli), roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), sable antelope (H. niger), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), and Lichtenstein’s hartebeest (Signoceros lichtensteinii). From Wordnik.com. [Western Zambezian grasslands] Reference
By valleys remote where the oribi plays. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation] Reference
Project Petits Ruminants, BP 65, Atakpame, Togo (oribi). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Other characteristic mammals include lion, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, Lichtenstein’s hartebeest, eland, sable, oribi, black rhino, and hippo. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Miombo woodlands] Reference
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