Four-horned antelope

The men of the Hippotrague unit assumed that after the previous team’s raid, the poachers had all fled home.

56 national geographic • September 2015 Five of the six men in Zakouma’s Hippotrague patrol unit were killed by elephant poachers outside the park; the sixth is presumed dead.

Five of the six men in Zakouma’s Hippotrague patrol unit were killed by elephant poachers outside the park; the sixth is presumed dead.

Four-horned antelope

Males and females wear high rimmed horns that are strongly bent backwards for males and less for females, their horns are about 100 to 120 cm and are smaller and thinner in the female.