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  • Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus mainly occur mainly near Lerai Forest; serval Felis serval occur widely in the crater and on the plains to the west.

    Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania 2009

  • Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus), puku (Kobus vardoni), southern reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), and sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei) are also common inhabitants of the floodplains, although these species tend to prefer the reed beds or more wooded vegetation on the margins of the floodplains.

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • Waterbuck (K. ellipsiprymnus), bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), and blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola) are mostly found in more wooded areas close to permanent water.

    Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands 2007

  • Waterbuck were also seriously affected, declining from around 48,000 in 1978 to 143 in 1994.

    Zambezian coastal flooded savanna 2007

  • Like all the rest of the court, Waterbuck rose, and remained on his feet until the judge was seated.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • He had been requested to be in court by half-past ten, to provide against the event of the first action (a breach of promise) collapsing, which however it did not, both sides showing a courage that afforded Waterbuck, Q.C., an opportunity for improving his already great reputation in this class of case.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • Waterbuck, Q.C., with the wings of his silk gown rustling, and his red, capable face supported by two short, brown whiskers.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • Waterbuck, Q.C., before, and, like many Forsytes in the lower branch of the profession, he had an extreme admiration for a good cross-examiner.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • Waterbuck, Q.C., had barely screwed round on his elbow to chat with his Junior before Mr. Justice Bentham himself appeared — a thin, rather hen-like man, with a little stoop, clean-shaven under his snowy wig.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • Waterbuck, Q.C., in pleasing conjunction with an almost rude neglect of Boulter and Fiske paid to Soames a good deal of attention, by instinct or the sounder evidence of rumour, feeling him to be a man of property.

    The Man of Property 2004

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