Door Dhoya Snijders During my wanderings through Southern Africa I encountered a charming creature that goes by the name ‘kudu’. The majestic antelope with its twisted horns is something of an icon in South Africa, appearing on its coins, traffic signs and menus. When I heard there was not one species of kudu, but multiple, my ears twitched. I initiated a brief taxonomical study of which the results became increasingly disorderly.