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Impalas Leaping Trio (Medium) on Blackwood base
11.2cm
102-712 ...... 1400 USD
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Impala (also known as Rooibok - redbuck) with their lovely lyre-shaped horns are widespread on the savanna woodlands of southern Africa.
The graceful Impala are almost always the first gazelles any new visitor to southern Africa will see, as they are very widespread. The ladylike but hornless females are almost always accompanied by a ram or two with his lyre-shaped horns.
During the rutting season, January to May, the big males battle it out noisily for the right to keep a harem of around 15 ewes inside a territory. The victor will be worn out by the end of the season, since in addition to defending his territory, he has to constantly round up his straying females.
Surprisingly agile and fast, impalas will bound in enormous, graceful leaps when attacked. A herd will often be found in the company of a troop of baboons, each species seeming to take advantage of the other’s watchfulness.
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