First described 200 years ago it is also now one Africa's most endangered antelopes despite being one of the most reproductive. |
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Ice Age America boasted huge sabre-toothed tigers, woolly bison, giant antelopes and the woolly mammoth. |
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But the number of wild animal species began to drop from the early 1980s, with Tibetan antelopes and wild kiangs in danger of extinction. |
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Currently we've got warthogs, monkeys, a baboon, small antelopes, a scrub hare and an Egyptian goose. |
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Our fathers used to hunt giraffes, water-bucks and antelopes and eat their meet. |
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Larger animals such as vlei rats and even small antelopes are preferred, if they can be easily taken. |
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Certain prey like bush pig and warthog, with their razor-sharp tusks, are handled differently from the horned and kicking antelopes. |
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As for antelopes, baboons, chimps, crocodiles, gazelles, giraffes, hippos, hyenas, warthogs and zebras, well, they're ten a shilling. |
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In Kekexili, he encountered large groups of female antelopes with their offspring. |
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Although crocodiles are formidable predators, taking prey as large as antelopes, they will allow crocodile birds to scavenge among their teeth. |
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Judging from mating rate, I found that female topi antelopes in estrus preferred lek males to resource defenders. |
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The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies. |
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Early January also saw the birth of a brace of goats and a couple of antelopes. |
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Africa's mountain bongo antelopes are teetering on the brink of extinction because of deforestation and poaching. |
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In Kenya, meanwhile, the bongo antelopes, victims of deforestation and poaching, are teetering on the brink of extinction. |
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The women's tribe, the Moroyok, raised antelopes, including the eland, which the Maasai claim to have been the first species of cattle. |
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These creatures include fish, crocodiles, turtles, hippopotamuses, monkeys, rodents, and antelopes. |
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In performance, the generic figures appear in groups to represent mainly dogs, pangolins, and antelopes. |
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It will take 10 days for all the 40,000 female and baby Tibetan antelopes to cross the construction site. |
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The lion, sometimes called the King of the jungle, prefers killing antelopes while bushbuck are preferred by leopard. |
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Such favourites as herring, plaice, cod, Dover sole, haddock, monkfish, snapper, mackerel, sardines, scallops and tuna are all as wild as cheetahs and antelopes. |
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Both belong to the Neotragini tribe of dwarf antelopes that includes the dik-dik, steenbok, klipspringer, and oribi. |
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The pronghorn is more closely allied to deer than old-world antelopes. |
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There are also ibis, peacocks, falcons, eagles, griffins, harts, antelopes, gazelles, elephants and camels. |
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The handsome sable antelope of eastern and southern Africa belongs to a group called sabre-horned antelopes, because of their long, scimitar-shaped horns. |
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Most antelopes are good runners and many of them graze in herds on plains. |
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Over 25 percent of chimpanzees in tourist and research groups in Uganda are missing hands or feet as a result of snares from wire traps set out for antelopes. |
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In Jozani Forest live various wild animals such as the endemic Zanzibar red colobus and small forest antelopes. |
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In this movie we follow different hunters as they take some excellent trophies of buffalo and the coveted eland and sable antelopes. |
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On the menu will be two elephants, two buffaloes, two sable antelopes, five impalas and a lion kindly donated by a local farmer. |
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Significant incomes are generated from trophy hunting of wildlife species such as forest buffaloes and antelopes. |
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The wildlife consists mainly of elephants, buffaloes, antelopes and monkeys. |
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Mum was just 16 years old when the antelopes and tropical heat suddenly gave way to Top of the Pops and cold, wet Lincolnshire fields. |
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Hey, who knew that lions liked to eat antelopes? Mr Frank writes on a blog called Political Animal, but the zoo analogy was a very poor choice. |
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I understand that elephants, camels, antelopes and giraffes apparently are susceptible to the disease. |
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A reintroduction program has meant the return of gazelles, ostriches and antelopes. |
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Chinese traditional medicine uses a number of endangered plant and animal species, including tigers, rhinoceros, bears and saiga antelopes. |
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It is here that you will be able to explore a number of things, including extensive bird life and some small antelopes. |
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In eastern Africa, they mostly hunt Thomson's gazelles, but they will also attack calves, warthogs, zebras, impalas, and the young of large antelopes such as the gnu. |
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One of the most striking and beautiful of the antelopes, the greater kudu lives in central and southern Africa, in rocky hill country or on brush-covered plains. |
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Many birds and some antelopes, notably the dik-dik and the saiga, sport noses that give them an exceptional ability to regulate brain temperature and conserve water. |
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From tigers to the killing of Tibetan antelopes and sea turtles in Orissa, everything worries her, and there is a strong determination to fight against all odds. |
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Also, humans are considered unaccomplished runners when compared to mammals such as pronghorn antelopes, which can sprint at 40 miles an hour for several minutes. |
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The cerebellum is nearly the same fraction of the brain in sloths and cats, sheep, manatees and antelopes but many fold bigger in some elasmobranch species than in others. |
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Fences are being torn down and on my own ranch squatters have snared 2000 impalas, 365 other antelopes, 20 zebras, two cheetahs, two elephants and one wild dog. |
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They run like antelopes at the Olympic Games. |
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When we were young we only had to walk a few metres in the forest to see all sorts of animals: monkeys racing through the trees, porcupines and pangolins digging underground mazes, bush pigs, snakes and antelopes. |
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Tours are organized to observe gazelles, antelopes and ostriches. |
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For the Tunisian project for example, captive-bred antelopes from seven zoos in six European countries were released in the Sidi Toui National Park in the desert region of southern Tunisia. |
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Bongos and other forest antelopes also thrive in the areas where logging has opened up the canopy and allowed the development of the rich undergrowth that provides them with shelter and food. |
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Screen partitioned in two: a field with yellow flowers and antelopes. |
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Activities: A fine network of game-viewing roads follows the Great Ruaha and its seasonal tributaries, where, during the dry season, impala, waterbuck and other antelopes risk their life for a sip of life-sustaining water. |
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One such fable concerns the springbok antelopes and the scarab beetles, which reinforces the intergenerational, identity-related link geared to fostering a sense of belonging to the community. |
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Apparently, it's a posh pashmina but they have to kill three Tibetan antelopes to make each shawl. |
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Topis, medium-sized antelopes in Africa, reverse the standard roles in courtship, says Jakob Bro-Jorgensen of the Zoological Society of London. |
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Reporters were out looking for eight Tibetan antelopes wearing ID collars when they saw paw prints around their shelter. |
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Among the other animals found in these forests feature warthogs, wild cats, red buffalos, forest antelopes, hippopotamus, rhinoceroses, snakes of the woods and birds of which those very beautiful. |
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In ruminant artiodactyls, such as antelopes, deer, and cattle, the stomach has up to four chambers, each with a particular function in the processing of vegetable material. |
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Here was a man who saw personally to everything, whether a petition from a gunner, or the proper painting of antelopes on his flagship, the Trinity Royal, or the ordering of horseshoe nails. |
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Over at Washington Monthly T. A. Frank responds to Mr KrauthammerSo I visit a rundown zoo and see hyenas in miserable cages, lions in miserable cages, and antelopes in miserable cages. |
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It offers the 'discerning sportsman' the ultimate hunting experience: large buffalo, lion, water buck, very rare East African sitatunga, leopards, antelopes, etc. |
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A herd of giant sable antelopes, in the surroundings of the jungle they are often seen is one of the most beautiful sights one can admire in Angola. However, this is almost impossible these days, except on pictures. |
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In 2010, 32 blackbuck antelopes died after drinking sewage water that flowed into their enclosures at the same zoo. |
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I set traps for rats, antelopes and other animals. |
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Among the antelopes, several Duiker varieties were observed. |
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We saw rhinos, hippos, antelopes of all sizes and monkeys of every size and color doing what they do in nature. |
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Ungulates in the area included white-tailed deer, collared peccaries, nilgai antelopes, wild boars, and cattle. |
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Maras have a white patch of fur on the rump that they flash when running, an adaptation they share with several species of deer and antelopes. |
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In Djibouti, rock art of what appear to be antelopes and a giraffe are also found at Dorra and Balho. |
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Among threatened species of the region, there are several antelopes such as the beira, the dibatag, the silver dikdik and the Speke's gazelle. |
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Many species of antelopes have been imported to other parts of the world, especially the United States, for exotic game hunting. |
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Not surprisingly for animals with long, slender yet powerful legs, many antelopes have long strides and can run fast. |
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Like many other herbivores, antelopes rely on keen senses to avoid predators. |
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Cows and antelopes were successful, and some camel species crossed into Asia from North America. |
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Cows and antelopes continued diversification and overtaking pigs in numbers of species. |
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These two very distinct genera appear to form a convenient bridge between the antelopes on the one hand and the rupicaprines on the other. |
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Tibetan antelopes are mostly found in Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and the western part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. |
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These cameras have snapped the pigmy hippo, leopard, bongo, antelopes and the white-breasted guineafowl to name a few. |
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This ammunition is adapted perfectly to the hunting of all big games European and used with greatest success on the antelopes African light and the warthogs. |
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The North African aoudad, blackbuck antelopes, three breeds of sheep and wild boar are available all year round. |
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There are still many species of wild animals throughout the country—especially in the far south: hyenas, foxes, leopards, lions, warthogs, ostriches, small antelopes, and a large variety of birds. |
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This one, in southern Sudan, involves vast herds of antelopes such as white-eared kob and korrigum, mongala gazelles, and even elephants. |
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The fierce solitary killers fed on antelopes, baboons and australopithecines. |
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None of the reserve's elephants or arid country specialities – the rare grevy's zebras, beisa oryx, reticulated giraffes and long-necked gerenuk antelopes – was lost. |
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Non-indigenous animals including the scimitar-horned oryx, the reticulated giraffe and blackbuck antelopes have also been introduced in the park. |
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Conservation groups speak of a bushmeat crisis and foresee the day when the primates and antelopes that make up the bulk of the trade become extinct. |
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On the Dinsho Trail, we walked along tracks on undulating hillsides with massive juniper trees sheltering mountain nyala and Menelik's bushbuck, both antelopes unique to Ethiopia. |
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And it's not because antelopes are numerous and easy to flush out that we should not be amazed by rare felines which actually look like big cats in the end. |
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Forests contain natural habitats for a wide range of wildlife, from the elks, wolves, lynxes, and bears of northern coniferous forests to the antelopes, giraffes, elephants, lions, and tigers of tropical savannas and jungles. |
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In the 1890s a rinderpest plague swept the African continent from Ethiopia to the Cape of Good Hope and killed up to 90 percent of the buffalo, as well as many antelopes. |
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Pukus are medium-sized antelopes with furry, gold-colored backs and white undersides. |
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These inventories assessed the abundance and distribution of megafauna species such as elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, Forest buffaloes and forest antelopes. |
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Poachers hunt the antelopes for their hide as it can be sold and made into shahtoosh, a luxury item that requires three to five antelope skins to make just one shawl. |
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The numerous bones of grass-grazing antelopes found deposited with robust australopithecine remains support this conclusion, the Yale paleontologist asserts. |
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Oryx are antelopes with two long, thin horns projecting from its forehead. |
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Most impressions belonged to antelopes, pigs, hippos and waterbirds. |
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Usually, all species of the Alcelaphinae, Antilopinae, Hippotraginae, Reduncinae, Cephalophinae, many Bovinae, the grey rhebok, and the impala are called antelopes. |
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In addition to the delta and desert areas, there are grasslands and savannas, where blue wildebeest, antelopes, and other mammals and birds are found. |
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Classified as antelopes, chamois are smaller than ibex and found throughout the Alps, living above the tree line and are common in the entire alpine range. |
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The area where the chimps live is also a habitat for elephants, antelopes, and monkeys of all kinds, including the critically endangered Preuss's red colobus. |
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Though of a similar build, deer are strongly distinguished from antelopes by their antlers, which are temporary and regularly regrown unlike the permanent horns of bovids. |
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It takes one through beautiful green vistas and a few watering holes where animals such as antelopes, nilgais, hyena, jackals, among others, can be spotted. |
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