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Cheetah chasing gazelle in slo-mo

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This is my dream – this is my nightmare

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Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse One Chinkara (Indian gazelle) male follows the female keeping his head low and sniffing her. Indian gazelle You know the secret of how African park rangers find animals for tourists? A bit further away, there is another male, this one with a dozen female strong harem.

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Birding Dulan County, Qinghai

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Gazelle, maybe Goitered ? Himalayan Marmot (with nice blue flower). Three Himalayan Marmots without nice blue flowers. Two Himalayan Marmots , one of which small, presumably wet and rather cute. No nice blue flowers. Moupin Pika. Not in a zoo but in the wild, despite the fence in the background.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

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monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). Strictly speaking, Mammals of South Asia is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.

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Is my Rhino Still Alive?

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One Springbok gazelle came to drink, but kept a respectful distance staying by the smaller puddle. The sky was becoming orange-pink; its reflections were colouring the water, while the rhino raised its head, water sipping through his half-open snout, itself shining from the last sun rays of the day.

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

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Most famous for the great wildebeest migration, a phenomenon of 2 million wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and eland seasonally moving across the plains and woodlands following an ancient course charted by seasonal rainfall. This 12,000 square mile ecosystem stretches across north-western Tanzania into the Maasai Mara in Kenya.

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On "The Wild"

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Finally, people who object to our moral stance jump species and say we should object to the lion killing the gazelle. We hunters are helping the deer," remember that hunters aren't in the woods looking for exhausted, starving, sickly deer to put out of their misery. They are looking for healthy, large ones.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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The Hamar women are immediately identifiable by their brick red hair braids, beautiful beaded jewelry and animal skin clothes designed to imitate gazelles. As we arrived a party of clockwork-like D’Arnaud’s Barbets were performing their comical tail-wagging display on the upright poles of the cattle corral.

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