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The engravings, which depict animals such as camels, ibex, equids, gazelles, and aurochs, include 130 highly detailed and life-sized figures, some reaching up to 3 meters long and more than 2 meters tall.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2025

The piled stones are often little more than lines on the desert floor, and Crassard notes that gazelles and antelopes would have been able to easily leap over them.

From Scientific American • May 17, 2023

Because of the abundance there of grasses as sources of food, Africa’s savannas are home to a range of large grazing mammals including gazelles, wildebeests, elephants, ostriches, and zebras.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

These Terps are grinders, not gazelles, and shortening the game against a team that averaged 82.6 points — fifth in the nation — was the best philosophy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023

It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari