Gerenuk Pose by NightGallery

Photography • Animals • posted on Jul 18, 2013

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Likely the last or next to last one from the San Diego Zoo. I really fell in love with these cute guys. They weren't very active but I just thought they were so cute. And they really focused on the humans there. They would look you right in the eye and connect with you. There was about 6 in the enclosure together, I couldn't tell the males from the females and there was nothing written to detail that. They had a long neck and stick skinny legs. I probably took 12 shots of these fascinating creatures. Some info on them below from Wikipedia if interested... Thanks for looking... B A long-necked species of antelope found in dry thorn bush scrub and desert in East Africa, from Somalia, Djibouti and eastern Ethiopia through northern and eastern Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. The word gerenuk (pronounced with a hard g) comes from the Somali language, meaning "giraffe-necked". Gerenuk are sometimes also called the giraffe-necked antelope. It is the sole member of the genus Litocranius.