 The heraldic antelope has the body of a stag and the tail of a lion, with serrated horns, and a small tusk at the end of its snout.This bizarre and inaccurate form was invented by European heralds in the Middle Ages, who knew little of foreign animals and made up the rest.The antelope was mistakenly imagined to be a monstrous beast of prey; the 16th century poet Edmund Spenser referred to it as being "as fierce and fell as a wolf."