Damaliscus lunatus Shoulder height 120cm. Weight 125–140kg.
Tsessebe are basically a slightly smaller, darker version of hartebeest, coloured red-brown with an almost purple sheen, though their lower legs are distinctly paler. (A closely related subspecies is known as topi in East Africa.) They look similar in profile or at a distance, although often in the field you can make a good guess from the environment which antelope you're looking at long before you're close enough to examine its colouring.

Tsessebe are found in northern Botswana, and are one of the most common antelope in some parts of the Okavango Delta. (One study claimed 70% of lion kills in the Delta are tsessebe.)

Its favourite habitat is open grassland, where it is a selective grazer, eating the younger, more nutritious grasses. This makes it efficient in pastures where some grasses are old and some fresh, or in more broken country, but less efficient than, say, wildebeest where the pasture is uniformly short, good grass. The tsessebe is one of the fastest antelope species, and jumps very well.