THE ORIBIS 
still, and in this position allow one to pass within a few yards of it without 
moving. It will, however, be fully on the alert and ready to spring to its 
feet and bound away at once if it thinks it has been detected. I remember 
seeing an oribi squat thus on the plain just behind the busy city of Port 
Elizabeth. I rode slowly towards it and passed within half-a-dozen yards 
of it, but without ever checking my horse, and the little antelope never 
moved, but lay motionless in the short grass, with its head flat on the 
ground and its ears laid along its neck. When disturbed in long grass, 
oribis often bound high in the air as they run. They are very fleet and 
enduring, and can only be overtaken by greyhounds. 
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