Dangerous species of plains game?

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I know of a hunter who came to pick up a steinbock, shot and wounded.
Steinbock jumped and punched through both of his horns into the hunter's wrist. Pass through!
So, each animal can be aggressive.

What the experienced PH and hunters consider specifically aggressive plains game when wounded? Or not wounded, but still aggressive?
 
Bushbuck and Gemsbok.
I had a Gemsbok try and gore me and without all the bush in the way it would have succeeded.
 
Since we use dogs extensively on wounded animals, I'll go by which ones are a danger to them.
Bushbuck, Gemsbuck, Warthog, Nyala, Zebra, Bushpig, Baboon can all finish the job.

Dog needs to be respectful of his quarry and not overly aggressive. ( Wants to bite at the hind quarters of the bayed animal.) Then you can almost put them on any of the abovementioned animals.

Very nice thread!
 
My bushbuck in Zimbabwe tried very hard to gore the dogs. He was badly wounded, was not able to stand up, and yet he was trying to gore the dogs!
 
The above mentioned...and sable....had a waterbuck come when walking up slowly to it when it was down...I would say basically if it has horns or teeth like warthog etc that can open you like a razor blade ...then all have the potential to do you damage if you get too casual with them.....
 

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