Impala are everywhere at Savuti--they are the fast food of choice of most predators.  You see them in bachelor herds and in breeding herds with one male.  The older males spend every minute either defending their own breeding herd or trying to steal someone else's.  Sometimes they are so exhausted from chasing away other males and having no time to eat, that they are too weak to breed to their females and another gets them anyway.

I liked this casual passing of an impala and a small young baboon--neither cared if the other was there or not.

Later on at Savuti we watched some cheetahs and they were watching this small herd of young bachelor impala.  The females don't have horns.

They were very leery and alert and when one of the cheetahs moved, this older impala jumped and away the whole group went.

Here are a couple making tracks just in case.  We were quite far away with the cheetahs, but the impala weren't taking any chances when one cheetah stood up.  James said the cheetah weren't serious or they would have gone around the other side and they could have gotten them.  He knew these cheetah well, as you soon will too.

These are red lechwe--sometimes confused with impala, but they are different in a lot of ways.  There is always water where lechwe are.  They are taller in the back and their horns curl forward so they can attack approaching predators from in water by lowering their heads so the forward facing horns are dangerous.  And, as you remember, their feet are splayed for running through water.

Here's a magnificent red lechwe buck.............

......and an equally magnificent male waterbok.  Note that his horns go forward at the ends too--also for repulsing enemies attacking from land as he stands in water.  The other obvious feature of the waterbok is, of course, the ring around the rear.  Did he sit on a freshly painted toilet seat?  It's for the young to follow as they run through the bush........and of course the females have it too to aid the nearsighted males.

By the way, bok is the Afrikaans word for antelope--much easier to say and type.