What species of animal is this?

EDIT; sorry, read it wrong haha

Your link reads as follows:

The page cannot be displayed

http://wandel.ca/africa2005/20050112/grants_gazelle_cropped.jpg

that help?

Nope. I’m sorry!

just edited it, haha, it works now (o:

I got it to work with cut & paste.

Yeah, it does resemble the Grats Gazelle.

Thanks!

no problem!

impala. i saw many of them this summer in south africa.

Definitely an impala

I can say for sure that it is not this animal

An Impala looks LIKE THIS!

I don’t know what everyone is talking about. They just look like birds to me.

They are red billed oxpecker birds…wrong animal?

It’s an African Antelope or an Impala.

Now I am REALLY confused! Help!

Here you go Jack
National Geographic seems like a good source

Impala
Aepyceros melampus

thats an impala
their horns have spirals

You are right, fireside.

Question answered!

Can I ask why you wanted to know? Yes I am nosey, you don’t have to answer if you don’t want!

Sun 5:30 PM

I wanted to know, because I did NOT know.

Oh ~ I was just curious!

I’m confused. Why was fireside right, and everyone who said ‘impala’ before, not right?

omg

hahaha this made me laugh. i thought it was an antelope at first but i really do not know to much about those lookin animals. xD

@Les – it probably had something to do with the Latin…..

Fireside was right, because the NGS photo was almost identical to the one I posted, and was correctly labeled by them.

@fireman: there are many different species in the antelope group. impala, kudu, blesbok, steenbok and carribou are all antelope. im 100% sure that that’s an impala. fireside’s picture is an impala.

while we’re on the topic of antelope, a little trivia: what’s the difference between a carribou and a raindeer. lurve to the person who gets it first.

Domestication

Although the similarities between reindeer and caribou are numerous, the differences are enough that they are classified as two subspecies. Reindeer and caribou share the same genus, Rangifer, and species name, tarandus. Domestication is the biggest difference between reindeer and caribou. Reindeer are a semidomesticated subspecies of Rangifer, and there are many subspecies of both reindeer and caribou in Alaska.

fireside is correct. i lurve you.

At first glance, I thought the animal might have been a member of the Ibex family, but after perusing the various sub-genuses, I decided to pose my question, because I just couldn’t seem to identify it.

I’m grateful for everyone’s help. Thanks!

Hmm… I would have said it was a Springbok, so thankyou for educating me as well. It seems that the Springbok has different markings on its face, from what I can tell.

These Springboks are different again! I didn’t know antelopes could catch balls…

Are the Springboks your favourite Rugby team?

They are in South Africa, and not Australia…

If they’re playing against the all blacks, yes. If they’re playing against the wallabies no. Australia first always! They’re my dad’s first team though, his family are from South Africa. But he has a jumper for all three teams so he can barrack for whoever he feels like :P

I guess he can Obama for whoever he feels like, as well.

Har har. How did I know that one was coming? :P

Because all women can read minds.

Correctamondo!
:D