What is Antelope?
[[File:Dik-dik Dennis.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Dik-dik]]]] [[File:Gazella thomsonii Thomsons Gazelle in Tanzania 2573 Nevit.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Thomson's gazelle]]]] [[File:Blackbuck male female.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Blackbuck]] antelope]] [[File:Giant Eland at SF Zoo 4.JPG|thumb|right|200px|[[Eland]] are the largest antelopes.]] '''Antelope''' is a term for many [[even-toed ungulate]] [[species]]. ''Antelope is not a strict [[taxonomy|taxonomic]] term'' because they are not a [[clade]]. Antelope is a '[[wastebasket taxon]]' in the family [[Bovidae]]. It includes the old-world species which are not [[cattle]], [[sheep]], [[buffalo]], [[bison]], or [[goat]]s. Antelopes occupy the [[ecological niche]] which [[deer]] occupy north of the [[Sahara]]. Both deer and antelopes are grass-eating mammals which have replaced [[browsers]] as the dominant vegetarian animals as [[forests]] gave way to [[grasslands]].<ref>Vrba, Elisabeth S. 1995. ''Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins''. Yale University Press.</ref> Antelope are found mostly in [[Africa]] below the [[Sahara]], and parts of [[Asia]]. No antelope are native to [[North America]]: the [[pronghorn]] is a member of the family [[Antilocapridae]], another family. True antelope have [[Horn (anatomy)|horns]] which are unbranched and never shed, while pronghorns have branching horns, and shed annually. There are 91 species of antelope, most of which are native to Africa, in about 30 [[genera]].<ref>Spinage C.A. 1986. ''The natural history of antelopes''. Facts on File Publications, New York.</ref> A group of antelope is called a [[herd]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kennel/collectives.htm |title=Hints and things |access-date=2011-02-08 |archive-date=2013-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726211851/http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kennel/collectives.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Species of [[forest]], [[woodland]], or [[Shrub|bush]] tend to be [[wikt:sedentary|sedentary]], but many of the plains spec