The head, neck and legs are less flecked and somewhat yellowish, while the inside of the ears, eye-rings, mouth area, throat and underside are white.

Males have short, sharp and straight horns about 8 cm long, which are smooth.

In the Cape Peninsula the grysbok can be found in urban edges close to human activity.

Like Sharpe's grysbok they use a communal latrine and mark plants in its vicinity with secretions from their pre-orbital glands.

The primary physical difference between the two grysboks is that Sharpe's has a pair of "false hooves" above the fetlocks.