Black spelled correctly "serendipity" and "gerenuk" - a long-necked species of antelope native to East Africa - to earn all six points possible in rounds two and three. From Wordnik.com. [The Times-Journal: News] Reference
"I had just seen the word 'gerenuk' about two hours before I had to spell it," Black said. From Wordnik.com. [The Times-Journal: News] Reference
A gerenuk on tiptoes, entwined in a thorn tree, lipping away the tender leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing] Reference
Typical size for an adult gerenuk is approximately three feet at the shoulder with a weight between 80 and 115 pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Disney’s Animal Kingdom welcomes new Antelope Calf, so cute! | The Disney Blog] Reference
These were some of the smaller and mediumsized varieties - impala, Thompson's and Grant's gazelle, gerenuk and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Presley, the 28th gerenuk calf to be born at DAK, weighed in at six pounds and approximately two feet tall, after a seven-month gestation. From Wordnik.com. [Disney’s Animal Kingdom welcomes new Antelope Calf, so cute! | The Disney Blog] Reference
This represents the extent of some species like the gerenuk (Litocranius walleri), which is present in the north, but is absent in much of the south. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets] Reference
A gerenuk, which in Somali means “giraffe-necked,” is an African antelope with a unique long neck allowing them to eat leaves off the tree versus savannah grass. From Wordnik.com. [Disney’s Animal Kingdom welcomes new Antelope Calf, so cute! | The Disney Blog] Reference
Game was increasing, and that night they located another drinking-place half a mile up the drift, where the boys bagged three gerenuk, a kind of gazelle, and two wildebeest. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Excessive hunting had exterminated this antelope over much of its Somalian range by the 1980s but it is still distributed over a wide range in Ethiopia, the largest population found in the Awash Valley north of the Awash N.P. The gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) also occurs and has a wider distribution, extending further south into Kenya. From Wordnik.com. [Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets] Reference
The gerenuk we had come to look upon as our Lesser Hoodoo. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
Once we saw gerenuk-oh, far away in an impossible distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
We ran across the second imbecile gerenuk, and B. collected it!. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
Two female gerenuk calves have been born recently at Disney's Animal Kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [MousePlanet] Reference
A typical adult gerenuk will reach about three feet at the shoulder with a weight of 80-115 pounds. From Wordnik.com. [MousePlanet] Reference
The rhinoceros is, with the giraffe, the hippopotamus, the gerenuk, and the camel, one of Africa's unbelievable animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
And lo! through a tiny opening in the brush we espied one of those elusive gerenuk standing not over one hundred yards away. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
Animal specialists at Conservation Station prepare to perform an ultrasound and liver biopsy on an 11-year-old gerenuk last week. From Wordnik.com. [MousePlanet] Reference
Burchell zebras, all the giraffes save that of Nigeria, the big waterbucks, the nyala, the sitatunga, the bongo, and the gerenuk -- all will go in the same way, everywhere outside the game preserves. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
22: 39 Looking at: 2009年版・人気ブログ型サイトのデザイン 第1回 基礎データ編:: gerenuk. crazyphoto.org /. From Wordnik.com. [El diario de la diseñadora viviendo en tokio] Reference
The ecoregion also features several species of arid-adapted ungulate: the endangered Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi), beisa oryx (Oryx gazella beisa), gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) and lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis). From Wordnik.com. [Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets] Reference
This entry was posted in Walt Disney World and tagged animal husbandry, animal kingdom, antelope, aza, baby, dak, disney, gerenuk, theme park, Walt Disney World, WDW, zoo. From Wordnik.com. [Disney’s Animal Kingdom welcomes new Antelope Calf, so cute! | The Disney Blog] Reference
Grazing on the grasses and trees are vast herds of hoofed mammals including buffalo, giraffes, eland, impalas, oryx, gazelles, gerenuk, wildebeest, zebra, rhinoceroses, elephants, and warthogs. From Wordnik.com. [Terrestrial biome] Reference
I have not seen the grysbok, or the suni, or the dibitag, or the lechwi, or the aoul, or the gerenuk, or the blaauwbok, or the chevrotain, or lots of others, but who in the world could guess what they were or what they looked like, judging only from the names?. From Wordnik.com. [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference
On another day as I journeyed along the valley of the Guaso Nyerofirst at the head of the safari, as it travelled through the green forest of the river-bed, and then with only my gun-bearers, through the hot, waterless, sun-scorched country back from the riverI saw rhino, giraffe, buffalo, eland, oryx, waterbuck, impalla, big gazelle, and gerenuk or giraffe-gazelle. From Wordnik.com. [VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant] Reference
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