THE kudu is a rare combination of beauty, gentility and strength. Hunters find the kudu compelling and many are taken every year for table meat, biltong and dried wors.
Latin Name: Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Afrikaans name: Koedoe
Distribution
Southern Africa is blessed with an extremely wide distribution of the southern greater kudu, and their adaptability to various habitats leaves us spoiled for choice when deciding where and how to hunt them. Their distribution range is growing, probably due to the proliferation of boreholes and an abundance of food in the form of crops (maize, sun-flowers, etc).
Habitat
Kudu favour broken savannah, hills and mountains. They love hilly country. If found on the flat, there is always a kloof, gorge, or bush-lined riverbed not far away. The only terrain kudu don’t like, apart from genuine waterless desert, is open grassland (which provides neither browse nor cover), and rain forests.
Kudu are almost exclusively browsers, but will occasionally eat new grass shoots. They also eat seed pods and fruits, and in arid regions, succulents, tsama melons, etc. They will happily raid crops and vegetable gardens. But
