Sentences with phrase «of lechwe»

We saw giraffe and, moving far off, a herd of zebra; in a short span we caught glimpses of waterbuck, sable and sitatunga, of lechwe, warthog and a small sewing circle of lovely kudu females.

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In the Kafue area, a high incidence of Mycobacterium bovis in both cattle and the Kafue lechwe antilope has been detected.

Soar above pods of hippo sleeping the day away in the depths of a lagoon, watch a herd of elephants slowly amble along open grasslands or marvel at the fleet moves of red lechwe antelope as they leap through a fringe of papyrus reeds in the shallows.

Meanwhile, the survey team estimates that almost 4,000 Nile lechwe dwell in the Sudd swamps, alongside considerable populations of hippopotamus, buffalo and sitatunga.

Also discovered: Populations of beisa oryx, thought to be extinct in the region, and the Nile lechwe, an antelope found nowhere else in the world, and presumed near extinction.