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... Thomson's gazelle eat mainly the tenderest blades and also some browse; wildebeest prefer the leaves of grass, ingesting few stems, whereas in zebra the pattern is re- versed; buffalo may specialize in the tall coarse grasses along ...
... Thomson's gazelle eat mainly the tenderest blades and also some browse; wildebeest prefer the leaves of grass, ingesting few stems, whereas in zebra the pattern is re- versed; buffalo may specialize in the tall coarse grasses along ...
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... Thomson's gazelle was the preferred prey (91 percent), followed by Grant's gazelle, wildebeest, impala, and hare in that order. A Thomson's gazelle weighs some 35 to 40 pounds, just one large meal for a cheetah weighing 110 to 130 ...
... Thomson's gazelle was the preferred prey (91 percent), followed by Grant's gazelle, wildebeest, impala, and hare in that order. A Thomson's gazelle weighs some 35 to 40 pounds, just one large meal for a cheetah weighing 110 to 130 ...
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... Thomson's gazelle and wildebeest were their main food on the plains and around Seronera. Some fifty-seven percent of their kills consisted of wildebeest, most of them calves, from January to June, and twenty-four percent of Thomson's ...
... Thomson's gazelle and wildebeest were their main food on the plains and around Seronera. Some fifty-seven percent of their kills consisted of wildebeest, most of them calves, from January to June, and twenty-four percent of Thomson's ...
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