Gigantelope

Gigantelopes are the largest ever species of antelopes and among the largest modern land mammals native to Africa, alongside African elephants, which shares the same place and time as gigantelopes.

Description
They are big animals about the size between an Asian elephant and an African elephant. They have almost no hair except on its tail to shoo off insects and on ears to keep the insects out. Their feet are more muscular than most other antelopes due to their much bigger size than most antelopes. Their bodies are muscular and they have single tall humps on their backs in case of droughts. Their heads are very similar to most other antelope species, but their horns are curved forward and downward to dig the grass closer to their mouths to feed on. Despite their appearances, their closest living relatives are in fact the rainforest-dwelling duiker, which evolved from the same ancestor.

Distribution
They were once found throughout most of Africa, but are now restricted to nature preserves in Africa's jungles and grasslands, as well as few parts of the Sahara.

Behavior
They are solitary herbivores that remain wary due to lots of predators around such as horranes, lions, hyenas (young gigantelopes only), and leopards (young gigantelopes only). They can sometimes be aggressive if they have high amount of testosterone, which can result them attacking other large herbivores such as hippos, rhinos, and elephants.

Conservation Status
Gigantelopes are listed as vulnerable due to poaching for its horns to be made into jewelry, but conservationists are doing their best to protect gigantelopes by preserving them in nature preserves and make artificial lab-grown gigantelope horns to conserve more gigantelopes.