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| 37 | 138 | In a View more quotes about sense">sense this had pleased me, suggesting that our quarry might be in the vicinity; in a sense it had displeased me, suggesting that abundant, alternative game might also be in the vicinity, the tabuk tending to travel in herds. |
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| 37 | 135 | Twice we had heard the single note of the fleer from Cuwignaka, signaling the passage, overhead, of flighted ones, the Kinyanpi. |
| 37 | 136 | Once a tabuk, a prairie tabuk, tawny in the Barrens, single-horned, gazellelike, had grazed nearby. |
| 37 | 137 | It had browsed within feet of us. |
| 37 | 138 | In a sense this had pleased me, suggesting that our quarry might be in the vicinity; in a sense it had displeased me, suggesting that abundant, alternative game might also be in the vicinity, the tabuk tending to travel in herds. |
| 37 | 139 | Some varieties of prairie tabuk, interestingly, when sensing danger, tend to lie down. |
| 37 | 140 | This is counterinstinctual for most varieties of tabuk, which, when sensing danger, tend to freeze, in a tense, standing position and then, if alarmed further, tend to scurry away, depending on their agility and speed to escape predators. |
| 37 | 141 | The standing position, of course, as is the case with bipedalian creatures, tends to increase their scanning range. |