Gazelle

Follow Video The Taste For Blood A mother cheetah spots a baby gazelle and decides it’s the perfect meal for her cubs. Although they still feed on her milk, these killers are slowly but surely developing the taste for blood.

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Follow Video Cheetah, The Only Daytime Hunter Daytime hunting in Africa's savannah. A cheetah spots a Thomson's gazelle—what will happen next?

About Gazelle

Thomson's gazelles are medium-sized antelopes found in East Africa.

Gazelles typically frequent wide-open spaces and plains, where they browse on grasses, shoots, and leaves.

Open plains make them visible to predators like cheetahs or wild dogs, but gazelles are fleet of foot. The Thomson's gazelle can reach speeds of 40 miles an hour.

Some gazelle species eschew the grasslands for mountainous landscapes or even deserts. During the dry season some grassland gazelles will even take to the African bush in search of water.

Fast Facts

Common Name: Thomson's Gazelle

Scientific Name: Eudorcas thomsonii

Type: Mammals

Diet: Herbivores

Group Name: Herd

Average life span in the wild: 10 to 12 years

Size: Height at the shoulder, 20 to 43 in

Weight: 26 to 165 lbs

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