From the Dec. 5,1969 cover story AFRICAN ANTELOPE—Great Action Pictures by John Dominis. This photo is one of 3 images that ran of a GERENUK. The original caption: “The delicate gerenuk always feels safer keeping a peculiar intruder in full view. Like most antelope, it will stand motionless for several hours watching a threatening cheetah or leopard, and alert to flee whether it moves. Balancing upon its hind legs to reach sweetest morsels,the gerenuk browses on shoots of a thorn tree (above). Over thousands of years, this gangly animal has developed the elongated neck of a miniature giraffe. (John Dominis—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #wildLIFEwednesday #gerenuk #antelopes
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