Sentences with word «hartebeest»

But at least there's no risk of getting blindsided by a sprinting red hartebeest antelope, which is exactly what happens to South African mountain biker Evan van der Spuy in one of GoPro's most widely viewed clips.

The Bubal hartebeest is extinct; the scimitar horned oryx is extinct in the wild; and the African wild dog and African lion have vanished from the Sahara.

Among the other remains, Steele also identified hartebeests, wildebeests, zebras, buffalos, porcupines, hares, tortoises, freshwater molluscs, snakes and ostrich egg shells.

The dog in the righthand corner in this picture of Hottentots round a dead hartebeest, shows a distinct ridge on its back.

On the way we see zebras, giraffes, tsessebes (which look a little like hartebeest) two jackals and many birds.

Apart from being a sheep farm, we also offer game viewings, such as springbok, swart wildebeest, eland, alpaca, zebra and rooi hartebeest.

Throughout the farm you will be able to spot a number of animals including eland, gemsbuck, red hartebeest, kudu, blesbuck, springbuck, ostrich, waterbuck and zebra.

Fortunately for us they worked, and several afternoons later Bob and I managed to get on opposite sides of a small herd and by creeping carefully up on it took the best Hunter's hartebeest we saw on the trip.

The real test for the trackers came, though, when we said we'd like to shoot a Hunter's hartebeest, a rare African antelope because its range is limited to a tiny area near the Tana River in the Northern Frontier.

Prehistoric rock drawings depict hippopotamuses, giraffes, elephants, hartebeests, and foxes.

The name of the dam means «pass of the hartebeest.»

Herds of giraffes, zebra, gazelles, wildebeest, hartebeests and antelopes roam the plains, whilst being spied upon by lions, leopards and cheetahs.

Eland, wildebeest, hartebeest, bontebok, springbok, kudu and mountain zebra can also be spotted.

This Big 5 reserve has over 70 mammal species and among them are elephant, lion, white and black rhino, buffalo, leopard, wild dog, spotted hyena, brown hyena, cheetah, African wildcat, lynx, black back jackal, giraffe, zebra, blue wildebeest, nyala, impala, common reedbuck, warthog, waterbuck, bushpig, red and grey duiker, steenbuck, bush buck, mountain reedbuck, ostrich, red hartebeest and diverse birdlife of over 450 species.

Mountain zebra, eland, kudu, bushbuck, duiker, red hartebeest and other endemic game of the area can be encountered as well as prolific birdlife that includes the Forest Weaver and Knysna Loerie to name a few.

As a hartebeest takes a break from grazing, a construction crane on the horizon signals that development is encircling Nairobi National Park.

In pondering urbanization and ecology tonight, I was reminded of one of many disquieting scenes around the park where signs of the building boom that's spreading around the periphery cut into any sense of the wild, as with this construction crane and hartebeest.