South African wildlife - Impala

Not Exactly Rocket Science
By Ed Yong
Dec 6, 2009 11:00 PMNov 5, 2019 1:49 AM

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There's nothing like going on safari, rounding a corner in your open-top jeep and catching a glimpse of your first wild animals. Which will almost certainly be impala. Much camera-clicking, oohing and aahing ensues. Three days later... you have seen enough impala for a lifetime. They are everywhere. Sometimes, you'll drive for an hour, see nothing at all, catch a glimpse of movement, hurry towards it only to find yet another herd of impala. You start to resent the impala for not being something more interesting, for deigning to be commonplace when they could be, say, hunting dogs. You start trying to mentally will the impala to head in the direction of the leopard you just drove past mere moments ago. Which is obviously completely unfair, because common though impala are, they are still strikingly beautiful animals.

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