Gerenuk by goodoleboy

Photography • Animals • posted on Oct 17, 2015

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Captured back on 3/13/10, at the beautiful Griffith Park/Los Angeles Zoo in Los Angeles, California. Goods heavens, these guys are skinny. The gerenuk /ˈɡɛrɛnuːk/, Litocranius walleri, also known as the Waller's gazelle, is a long-necked species of antelope found in dry thorn shrubland and desert in the Horn of Africa and the African Great Lakes region. The word gerenuk comes from the word in the Somali language, Garanuug, meaning "giraffe-necked". Gerenuk are sometimes also called the giraffe-necked antelope. It is the sole member of the genus Litocranius. Source: Wikipedia free encyclopedia. These two never faced us humans during the time I was there, tending to ignore us instead, so I never got a good frontal shot of them. Au revoir.

Comments (9)

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Cyve

6:06PM | Sat, 17 October 2015

Marvelous capture my friend !!!

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bmac62

7:45PM | Sat, 17 October 2015

Wonderful. Have never seen these animals before. Delicate!

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Mulltipass

8:39PM | Sat, 17 October 2015

Amazing shot of the very cool species of Nature!!!

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coyoteviper

9:28PM | Sat, 17 October 2015

great pic and info. my first thought was DO NOT SHOOT. They are too skinny to have any meat on their bones, and not enough hide for a decent pair of boots. lol. a good shoy. I can see why they are called a long neck.

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aksirp

3:40AM | Sun, 18 October 2015

skinny and shy I think, never heard about Gerenuk, thank you for information!

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CavalierLady

7:19AM | Sun, 18 October 2015

I saw these at either the FW or Dallas zoo. They are beautiful creatures even if you couldn't get them to face you, Harry.

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helanker

12:13PM | Sun, 18 October 2015

I can hear the one saying to theother. " Dont pay any attention to the rude people there, staring at us all the time. Just pretend they aint there" Love this shot and your story Harry :)

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