They're zebras. There's wildebeest. There's antelope . There's all kinds of animals. And when you watch them, you can't really tell who's making the decisions.
Any cat can pick up a kitten and run for it. But if the antelope has other plans for the afternoon, like, takes off, now suddenly, the next thing you've got to do
And for the next 30, I don't know, 37-- something like that-- years with Gussie at the helm, and elk and antelope and buffalo, and even giraffes and elephants.
I turned the first rock over that I came to. And there was an antelope humerus, an arm bone, sticking in this concrete-like rock infill. I was stunned. I was less than a kilometer from where I'd spent the last 17 years.
I almost didn't go and look because I knew absolutely what Matthew had found. Matthew had found an antelope fossil. Because for every one of these early human ancestors that we find, every one piece, we find 250,000 antelope fossils.
Lions. Who doesn't love lions? Mostly they're antelopes that are hunted for meat.
Here's another way we go beyond. We have herds of antelopes , schools of fish, flocks of birds, all doing the same thing, same time. You know, Fred bird is not looking around seeing Susie bird go one way, and say, I think I'll do the same thing.
I called the South African Heritage Resource Agency, because there's actually cell phone coverage at the site, to get permission to take it out. They're there with antelopes .
to support ourselves-- to carry us around, to feed us, to protect us. Compared to something like an antelope , which, within just a matter of minutes, can spring up and walk alongside its mother. And so that places an enormous drain on the resources, on the care that the mother alone is able to provide.
And this early man in the foreground here, foraging for nuts and berries behind there, having a fire and dragging what looks like an antelope or something to fire. As man evolved from this person to this person, what changed?
They didn't have crates big enough for the elephants. They put an elephant in an antelope crate. And it breathed in and the crate fell apart.
they allowed these creatures to re-inhabit the area. They also built migratory corridors so that antelope and elk could traverse the facility and not be harmed and not be disrupted in their traditional patterns.
Any cat can pick up a kitten and run for it. And it's one thing if the antelope is right there and you .
And I can at night then take a look at these pins, you're familiar with all this, and see what happened that day. I can see they saw some pronghorn antelope . That means they came back from Canada in the summer.
other things. So you have citrate synthase on the left which has been studied quite a lot, AD, and so forth and so on. And you have South African antelope in the red, so I'm not gonna be beating them in 40 yard dash or 100 mile races anytime soon. Then you have endurance athletes.
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. Like the great diversity of antelopes and gazelles that make a living out in these open areas.
And in 2008, shortly thereafter, myself, my colleagues, And our first step is to reintroduce these pronghorned antelope , and it's something that we've wanted to do for a very long time
This is a huge game reserve. There's leopards and giraffe and zebra and antelopes and stuff. And I think he's off to chase some-- I'll see him at lunch time.
Because they're so beautiful. And if we lose them, the pronghorned antelope becomes the next fastest land animal. Although it's beautiful as well, it's got not quite the same iconic vision as that of the cheetah.
I called the South African Heritage Resource Agency, because there's actually cell phone coverage at the site, to get permission to take it out. We couldn't find anything that we could definitively say wasn't an antelope or something.
Lions. Who doesn't love lions? So say you're out to catch a hartebeest, which is a large antelope creature, and you want to eat that.
And in 2008, shortly thereafter, myself, my colleagues, So 100 years ago on this grassland, there were pronghorned antelope , and there were Mexican wolves
So this is a piece by Jeff Peters. Still works in the room, but what the heck is that antelope doing in that institutional-type hallway? It still works effectively in the room, but now you have cause for conversation.
such a rich source of food, things like saiga antelope , an endangered species.
But it only turned to the left. And if you went there, the other thing was in a month or two of being there, you might see very sparse game, a few antelope , maybe the occasional lion or leopard.
And in 2008, shortly thereafter, myself, my colleagues, The final goal that we have for this landscape, for the Castle Mountains, is the reintroduction of the pronghorn antelope .
Well, the baseline was back in 2000, when you combined all the antelope , buffalo, hippos, elephants, et cetera, fewer than 1,000 large animals combined.
Any cat can pick up a kitten and run for it. Like, the reason why you guys have your jobs here today is because some caveman picked up a rock and hit an antelope .
Matthew had found an antelope fossil. Because for every one of these early human ancestors that we find, every one piece, we find 250,000 antelope fossils. But he's my nine-year-old son.
are damaging. You know, I think the anthropological evidence is pretty strong that we evolved -- I mean, for instance, to run an antelope to death
hunts.” He's been on about a dozen of these persistence hunts, and he's found on average it takes between two to five hours to run an antelope
of human irrationality, which is, well, what can you expect from a species that evolved on the savanna to chuck spears at antelopes
He didn't know what they were. They were elephants, and pigs, and rhinos, and monkeys, and antelopes , and so on. And during the course of his work, I met him in Paris at a cocktail party and he said, you should come with me.
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. And they specialized. And as the climate got drier and drier in East Africa, and as the antelopes and gazelles and savanna baboons
Not over short distances, of course, but over long distances, we're better than antelopes , elephants, horses, you name it.