Mountain nyalas are rare and endangered antelopes found only in a small mountainous region of Ethiopia. (There are only several thousand left in the whole world!) Mountain nyala are so named because they look like the nyala of South Africa, but they’re really related to kudu, another kind of African antelope. They live in groups of four to six animals, but herds can grow to thirteen or more. These herds are usually made up of females and their young, accompanied by one adult male. Males are a lot larger than the females and have unusual spiral horns that twist backwards. Mountain nyalas frequently sport a scatter of spots and several poorly defined stripes on their body. In summer their coats are smooth and glossy, but in winter their coats grow really shaggy. They’re most active in the late afternoon, night, and early morning when they graze the highland forest for ferns, lichen, fruits, seeds, flowers, leaves, and sometimes tender bark and tubers.