A kudu s best defense against these predators is its highly specialized camouflage. The stripes are perfectly suited to the kudu s habitat. Their patience also helps. If they sense danger, they hold so perfectly still that some animals don t detect them. Finally, if it is spotted by a predator, the kudu can jump six feet in the air, bounding away to escape.
Humans are probably the kudu s main enemy.
As human populations grow, they push the kudu into smaller and smaller areas. The kudu s habitat is destroyed when people cut trees to make charcoal or when they clear land for farming and ranching. Diseases like the Rinderpest virus also hurt the kudu. As the land gets used up and the animals disappear, the Hadza people s hunting and gathering lifestyle is also disappearing. So far though, the Hadzabe are hanging in there, and so is the kudu.