Giant Sable Antelope Hippotragus Niger Varani (2005)
In 2005, the Giant Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger varani) was photographed in a camera trap in Angola, after fears it had become extinct in the war-torn, Central African country. It was the first time the antelope had been recorded for 20 years.
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