Defassa Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa)

This large, sedentary antelope possesses a coarse, grizzled red-brown coat coated in an oily, musky secretion that acts as a water repellent and predator deterrent. Only males carry the long, heavily ridged, forward-curving horns. Highly dependent on water, they graze on protein-rich grasses and readily plunge into rivers to elude predators like lions and leopards.

Defassa waterbuck stay close to water almost without exception, and can be found at Murchison Falls National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, and Lake Mburo National Park. A shaggy, reddish-brown coat and a distinctive white ring around the rump make them easy to identify at a distance. The musky secretion produced by their skin deters most predators from eating them even after a successful kill.