Thomson's gazelles, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: V 4 MAM 3.1 EE 66
label: General
content: Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
label: Local Note
content: 51
label: Local Note
content: Frame value is 33.
label: Local Note
content: Slide No. V 4 MAM 3.1 EE 66
name: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
label: Collection Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Tanzania
topic: label: Topic
content: Mammals
label: Topic
content: Animals -- Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
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content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection
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content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Tanzania
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 24222
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One of the most common gazelles in East Africa, the graceful Thomson's Gazelle is distinguished from the similarly colored Grant's Gazelle by the dark stripe that runs from the shoulder to the flank and the white patch on the rump, as well as its smaller size. Male tommies are larger than females and have strongly ridged horns that curve backwards, with the tips curving forward. Female tommies have short, smooth, pencil-slim horns, or none at all. The face is accented by a black stripe running down from the eye, a dark marking on the nose and a light patch on the forehead. Although more reliant on water than Grant's gazelle, the Thomson's Gazelle has adapted to the open plains and grasslands of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for American Broadcasting Company and traveled to Africa from June 1966 to early August 1966.