Crossword-Solution: STEINBOK 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The principal antelopes found are the sable and the roan (_Hippotragus_), five species of _Cobus_ or waterbuck (the puku, the Senga puku, the lechwe, Crawshay's waterbuck and the common waterbuck); the pallah, tsessébe (_Damaliscus_), hartebeest, brindled gnu (perhaps two species), several duykers (including the large _Cephalophus sylvicultrix_), klipspringer, oribi, steinbok and reedbuck.

The ibex, or steinbok, is an Alpine animal remarkable for the development of its horns, which are sometimes more than three feet in length, and of such extraordinary dimensions that they appear to a casual observer to be peculiarly unsuitable for a quadruped which traverses the craggy regions of Alpine precipices.

Etym: [L., a kind of goat, the chamois.] (Zoöl.) Defn: One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.

The former, a game little antelope of the steinbok species, takes the ground in a series of long, flying leaps, his white tail whisking like a flag of defiance.

The two hounds hurl themselves upon the struggling carcase, their savage snarls mingling with the sickening, half-human yell emitted by the terrified and tortured steinbok.