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An impala at Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, southern Africa. The park is home to more than a hundred species of game, including almost 6,000 impala.

African antelope found from Kenya to South Africa in savannahs and open woodland. The body is sandy brown. Males have lyre-shaped horns up to 75 cm/2.5 ft long. Impala grow up to 1.5 m/5 ft long and 90 cm/3 ft tall. They live in herds and spring high in the air when alarmed. (Species Aepyceros melampus, family Bovidae.)



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