Three Views of Kudu …. Driving around any part of the world, you will see the international red triangle that signals WARNING. In Namibia we passed triangles that alerted us to Ostriches, Penguins, Elephants, and Warthogs; all you would agree would be bad things to run into. But, by far, the most common warning sign was this one telling us to look out for the Greater Kudu.

Kudu is a species of antelope – a browser that eats shoots and leaves and lives and hides from its predators (big cats and hyenas) in thickets that line every highway in open country. In the morning and evening they are skittish and are prone to leaping in front of traffic when disturbed. These are big animals – the males reach 700 pounds and are about 5 feet tall at the shoulders. When they are scared, they leap so when cars hit them they do so at windscreen height – not unusual for them to end up through front and rear windscreens.

Perhaps this behaviour could explain why we ate Kudu so often on this trip – high end road kill or, as Mike Meyer, suggested “Kudu: the filet mignon of game meat”.

Delicious for sure.

** The menu was in Joe’s Beer House in Windhoek – http://www.joesbeerhouse.com – and the live Kudu was in the Etosha National Park – http://www.etoshanationalpark.co.za No visit to Namibia could be considered complete without visiting these two institutions.