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Please help me identify this animal?
23 December 2009, 17:46
Andrew McLarenPlease help me identify this animal?
Please help identify this animal. I took the photo in a very old eastern Free State farmhouse. There are a whole bunch of such horns, most of which I could identify and tell the farm owner something about the trophy value. For example the photo also show a young impala and a very good gemsbuck.
The "corkscrew" horns are most definately "horns" and not some hoax. I pulled the black cloth a bit sideways and could clearly see that the "corkscrew things" are without any doubt true horns attached to a skull bone. There is absolutely no sign of any "ridge" as in the normal spiral horn antelope: The whole horn is quite round and smooth, but the "spiral" or corckscrew shape is quite evident, even if my photo was just snapped with a small digital camera..
Does anyone know what animal the hrons belonged to? If no-one knows, who wants to take a guess? The farmer had a few nature conservation guys there recently (to inspect, measure and weigh his rhino horn in the same display and compare it to the particulars in his permit) and they could not ID the animal at all.
Well, neither could I!
Help!
Andrew McLaren
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Today I still hunt! 23 December 2009, 17:56
butchloca shed reindeer horn from rudolph when he was little
23 December 2009, 17:58
umshiniwamMy best guess would be that it is a set of deformed cattle horns. Most likely from a Sanga/Nguni beast.
23 December 2009, 19:15
MacD37quote:
Originally posted by umshiniwam:
My best guess would be that it is a set of deformed cattle horns. Most likely from a Sanga/Nguni beast.
That would be my guess as well! Cattle horns!
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23 December 2009, 19:23
Grafton+2 for some kind of cattle
23 December 2009, 19:46
300win MagWhat about a bongo that has been sanded down. The old people loved doing this.I have seen Same colour horns in Kudu and Eland.Sanded down and varnished it looses its "ridge"
23 December 2009, 19:48
Settlers SafarisNot Bongo, thats a bushbuck from the Eastern cape, they get huge here ha ha!
24 December 2009, 01:29
NzouIt looks as though it might be the unfortunate by-product of a chance meeting between a bovine and a kudu!
24 December 2009, 02:44
bcolyerHell-Boy III
24 December 2009, 03:20
DLSCattle. Those look like one hell of a big set of bovine horns.
24 December 2009, 05:19
RBHuntAnother vote for cow horns.
24 December 2009, 07:42
wetdog2084screwy Watusi
24 December 2009, 08:05
505 gibbsI have to agree with something bovine
24 December 2009, 08:15
Sevenxbjtquote:
Originally posted by 505 gibbs:
I have to agree with something bovine
+1
24 December 2009, 12:58
86thecatIs there a possibility the skull has been sectioned or the horns rotated to bring the tips closer together in an inverted "omega"? If the tips were further apart in a "W" they would look more like cattle horns.
Longhorn and Watusi cross-
24 December 2009, 13:19
BushwackAndrew,
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24 December 2009, 19:47
MacD37There is a tribe someplace in Africa that form the horns of their cattle by tieing them as they grow to shape them to in odd shapes. I can't remember where I saw it but I think on a National Geographic show, and It seems to me they were someplace in a North African country!
Anyway the only horns I have ever seen with a surface like that mount were from cattle.
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24 December 2009, 19:57
BiebsI'm thinking it may be the old 4,000 lb Hartebeast of legend. Perhaps I'll buy them, and hang them in the study next to my Irish Elk !!!!!!!!!
Merry Christmas, all! Biebs