Cheetahs have come to occupy a curious place ... For the past hour or so Etta has been creeping up on a big male gazelle, drawing to within 40 yards of him, while he has remained oblivious to ...
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 ...
But for wildebeest, zebra and gazelle, the exuberant foliage is both saviour and curse. To the reserve's predators – and especially its cheetahs – the tall grass is the best hunting aid of all.
To see a cheetah bound across the Serengeti savanna; to spy a lioness begin her stealthy attack on a grazing herd of gazelle; to gaze at the silhouettes of a giraffe and an acacia tree at sunset ...
The company's relationship with those publishers was called the Gazelle Project after Mr. Bezos said Amazon "should approach these small publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle." ...