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Article: MOVE AIMS TO SAVE RARE ANTELOPE.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- September 15, 1996
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Byline: James C. McKinley Jr. The New York Times
The airplane dropped out of the twilit sky above the savannah just in time, only minutes before darkness enveloped the dirt airstrip. It taxied quickly to a flatbed truck huddled in the gloom at the runway's end. A side door sprang open.
A moment later, Dr. Richard Kock climbed out of the single-engine Cessna Caravan, cradling in his arms a baby hirola antelope. Drugged and masked, the little animal looked fragile and lost in his arms. It was one of the last of its kind.
``We made it!'' yelled Kock, a veterinarian. ``This is it. That's the last of them.''
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