Antelope...

korandokekorandoke Registered Users Posts: 517 Major grins
edited September 4, 2010 in Wildlife
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Thanks for looking.
greetings
Korandoke
Best regards,
Korandoke

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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2010
    Well done! thumb.gif
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2010
    Those aren't impala, are they?
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2010
    Love #2 Great capture clap.gifclap
  • 80weeks80weeks Registered Users Posts: 97 Big grins
    edited September 2, 2010
    Nice captures, love the action in them and the light in the first is beautiful.
  • korandokekorandoke Registered Users Posts: 517 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2010
    Icebear wrote: »
    Those aren't impala, are they?

    do not think so, impala has black stripes on bottom prices.

    people, thanks for the comments


    greetings,

    korandoke
    Best regards,
    Korandoke
  • Dennis KaczorDennis Kaczor Registered Users Posts: 2,413 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2010
    Well done, and I really like the second image.:ivar
  • IntrepidBerkeleyExplorerIntrepidBerkeleyExplorer Registered Users Posts: 80 Big grins
    edited September 2, 2010
    Where are these Antelope?
    The pictures are spectacular, but you have created some confusion over geography.

    That's done by omission, which leaves viewers unsure whether you are in Africa or North America.

    Impala are from Africa, and I have attached a still which shows the differences. This is from a safari 20 years ago. There are many African species that are considered part of the antelope family, some of which carry that name.

    My hunch is that you present lovely pronghorn antelope from North America. They fled whenever I was in the vicinity. So I ended up with great video and stills of buffalo, but dismal failure as to the pronghorn.

    Your subjects appear trying to get away, but great camera work didn't allow that. Pronghorn may be revealed at last.

    Hope I got this right. Could be wrong.

    Dave
  • LindiweLindiwe Registered Users Posts: 606 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2010
    My guess as to the non-impala's identity was going to be springbok. Whatever it is, the pictures are beautiful!

    (I couldn't get the pronghorns in Yellowstone to hold still for pictures either)
  • IntrepidBerkeleyExplorerIntrepidBerkeleyExplorer Registered Users Posts: 80 Big grins
    edited September 2, 2010
    pronghorns, springbok, or antelope?
    Lindiwe wrote: »
    My guess as to the non-impala's identity was going to be springbok. Whatever it is, the pictures are beautiful!

    (I couldn't get the pronghorns in Yellowstone to hold still for pictures either)

    Pronghorns do their best to make photography impossible. The cameras I had in Yellowstone (1991) were no match for immediate flight. We both came up empty.

    There is an old American song about our land as where "the deer and the antelope play". I never understood what it meant until encountering, but failing to photograph pronghorn. The song is a mystery no longer. The U.S. has antelope, but unlike deer, they always run away.

    You return to Africa, in this case South Africa, as the location for these exceptional pictures, since that's where springbok live. On my Kenya/Tanzania safari 20 years ago it seemed that most African animals tended to ignore human intruders with cameras.

    But we have two shots of animals in motion, trying to get away, which is additional evidence of pronghorn.

    We still need the skilled photographer who took these great pictures to end all uncertainty. North America or Africa, that is the question.

    Dave
  • korandokekorandoke Registered Users Posts: 517 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2010
    Do not argue about the species and where they live. it is me just about the pictures where the animal lives or goes does not matter. I will take this misunderstanding problems. they are no impalas or Pronghorn, not in africa or america but in india.
    This is the Indian antelope (Antilope cervicapra). this is a threatened species, so that I can make pictures that have been taken by a friend who bred these animals to save the species.
    attach a photo of a flock, they were taken in belgium
    They are also called blackbucks.

    I hope that not too many errors in the text, my English is not optilmaal.
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    greetings,
    Korandoke
    Best regards,
    Korandoke
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2010
    Your English is much better than my Flemish :D
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • korandokekorandoke Registered Users Posts: 517 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2010
    Icebear wrote: »
    Your English is much better than my Flemish :D

    with an online translator you will hear far rolleyes1.gif

    greetings

    Korandoke
    Best regards,
    Korandoke
  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2010
    Very nice captures!

    Yes, those are blackbuck antelope. They flourish in Texas as a wild species now. Here is a link to a local wildlife photographer here that has many captures of them in the wild.

    Again, very nice work and tell your friend he's doing good work.

    .
  • korandokekorandoke Registered Users Posts: 517 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2010
    M38A1,thank for the explanation and comments

    greetings,

    Korandoke
    Best regards,
    Korandoke
  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2010
  • korandokekorandoke Registered Users Posts: 517 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2010
    thanks bigal for the comments

    greetings,

    Korandoke
    Best regards,
    Korandoke
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