But for wildebeest, zebra and gazelle, the exuberant foliage is both saviour and curse. To the reserve's predators – and especially its cheetahs – the tall grass is the best hunting aid of all.

Open plains make them visible to predators like cheetahs or wild dogs, but gazelles are fleet of foot. The Thomson's gazelle can reach speeds of 40 miles an hour. Some gazelle species eschew the ...

Bezos said Amazon "should approach these small publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle." A joke, perhaps, but such an aggressive one that Amazon's lawyers demanded the Gazelle ...