BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo is happy to announce the birth of two male Thompson’s gazelle, one born April 9 and the other on April 13 in the zoo’s Africa loop.

The Thomson's gazelle can reach speeds of 40 miles an hour. Some gazelle species eschew the grasslands for mountainous landscapes or even deserts. During the dry season some grassland gazelles ...

Wt. 44-66 lb (20-30 kg); Shoulder Ht. 24"-27" (62-68 cm); Length 35"-43" (90-110 cm). The Thompson gazelle is fawn colored, with a wide horizontal black band along its side. The belly below the ...

Giant 16ft crocodile pounced on a gazelle as it entered a river to drink in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve; ... But after realising the Thompson's gazelle was too big to eat whole, ...

Close: Daphne with another Thompson's gazelle, this one named Bunty, in her garden in the 1970s 'If I could choose a species to raise, it probably wouldn't be elephants,' she confesses.

The Thompson gazelle joins the likes of the Rothschild giraffe, eland, hyena, hippos, leopard, and buffalo and over 250 bird species that call the conservancy home.