Blueback vs Bluebuck - What's the difference?
blueback | bluebuck |
Any of several fish
# A lake trout,
# A salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
# A herring, , similar to the alewife
An extinct mammal, , the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times (circa 1800).
* 1989 , J. L. Anderson, R. D. Carr, A. J. Hall-Martin, S. C. J. Joubert, M. E. Keep, P. H. Lloyd, S. Vrahimis, Chapter 10: South Africa'', Rod East (editor), ''Antelopes: Southern and South-Central Africa ,
* 1993 , Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife ,
* 2008 , United Nations Environment Programme, Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment ,
The nilgai.
As nouns the difference between blueback and bluebuck
is that blueback is any of several fish while bluebuck is an extinct mammal, , the first large african mammal to become extinct in historical times (circa 1800).blueback
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(wikipedia blueback)Noun
(en noun)bluebuck
English
(wikipedia bluebuck)Noun
(en noun)page 58,
- Almost all of these antelope communities have been reduced to scattered remnants by excessive hunting in the past and loss of habitat to agricultural development, but the bluebuck is the only antelope species which has been exterminated.
page 45,
- The blaubok, or bluebuck , was an antelope of the same genus as the roan and the sable; it was eliminated before 1800, primarily because the settlers took over the animal's grazing land for their cattle.
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- The bluebuck', or blue antelope, was the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times. '''Bluebuck''' numbers began dropping about 2000 years ago and the species was already rare by the 1700s.The last ' bluebuck was reportedly killed in 1799.