Black Faced Impala

Impalas are very abundant antelope in Southern Africa, but one form, the Black-faced Impala, Aepyceros melampus petersi, is rare, only occurring in the Etosha region of Namibia. Except for the black blaze down the nose it shares its reddish-brown colour and (in the rams) lyre-shaped horns with the nominate subspecies. Impalas can make immense, graceful leaps. I call this one Vlad. Watercolour