Here at Cute Overload News Headquarters, we’ve just gotten word that Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, once thought to be a wholesome, honest enterprise, has actually stolen this cute baby gazelle. Details are sketchy, but we hear it’s Thomson’s gazelle, so it must belong to someone named Thomson.
I’ve just gotten a clarification: This is a Thomson’s gazelle. So apparently Thomson has more gazelles; maybe he won’t even miss this one. In fact, who is this Thomson, and why is he hogging all the gazelles, anyway? He’s probably engineering a worldwide gazelle shortage, which explains why Busch Gardens was reduced to stealing this one, and it’s all the fault of that stupid, greedy Thomson!
Images from Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, via BGTNation.
Very cleaveair Monsure, but that is rily a gazelle which belongs to moi!
*grabby hands*
Well, I don’t care who he belongs to, I want him!
You could nom on his ears for days and still have some leftover!
WANT!!! A new playmate for my kittehs!
hhhhhmmmmmm…..for your KITTEHS, you say????
*stern, disbelieving facial expresh*
I want him too!!! Maybe Martha can share??
The crouching person shows just how tiny this little guy is. We’ve been seeing a lot of people with jealousy-inducing jobs lately – is it What Color is Your Parachute Week?
Exactly! I was doing the *scroll, scroll…bang – look at how tiny – squeeeee!*
Hi.
I’m Thomson.
I was missing that gazelle.
To be honest, he’s only half gazelle.
The other half is saber-tooth tiger…
…so watch your fingers as you ship him back.
First class please. Gazzeltoothtigerellas are snooty at best.
The daintily bent knee in the second photo is simply sublime.
perfectly stated!
They are the knobbiest knobular knees I’ve ever seen. Period.
“Let’s get knobbular, knobbular”
And the little perfect fourth position in the first pic. . . so balleterific!
Indeed, as if the sipping of tea is eminent and the bent knee is the gazelle version of a raised pinkie.
Quite the disdainful expression avec disapproving-bunnular ears. Quite.
And if rescuted by the bumbling detectives in the English translation of Tintin, it would be Thomson & Thompson’s Thomson.
And noted, Thomson without a ‘p’, as in Venezuela.
Tintin ref FTW!
did somebody say “vuvuzuela”???
– or maybe “uvula”????
Signed,
Not Ready for Prime-Time/
Old-skool “SNL”
Um, stop right there, you’re heading for trouble.
There’s obviously been a typo. My maiden name is Thompson, and this is MY baybeh gazelle. *snif* the cruel gazelle-nappers took the baybeh when we was in GazelleMart just as I turned my back to get some formula for it…
Please return it to me, as my home is so empty without it..
LOL @ “GazelleMart”
*sympathetic, anguished Sob of Pathos*
Thomson was probably the zoologist who studied them
From our friend Wiki:
“Joseph Thomson (1858 – 1895) was a Scottish geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa. Thomson’s Gazelle is named for him. Excelling as an explorer rather than an exact scientist”, his accounts of travel in Masai country were fictionalised in H. Rider Haggard’s ‘King Solomon’s Mines’.
I believe they also named a bird after him: the Thom-a-Hawk.
O NO U DI-unt!!!???
Affectionately known as “Tommies.”
In the 80′s there was a brother and sister gazelle band called the Thomson Twins.
(Heading off to drown this 80′s flashback in gin.)
YAY Thom(p)son Twins!!!!
YAY gin!!1111!!!
*snerk*
Move over.
Does your gazelle bite?
(said with outrageous French accent)
do the gazelles have large talons?
)
(said with a napolean dynamite accent
Zat eez not mah gahzelllle.
Alternatively:
“Dooo yew have a leee-sance foor yer gah-zelle????”
Zere is a beuhm in my rheuhm.
Want. Want! Want!!!!!111!!!!
I second that!!!!
So cute and teeny! SQEEEEEEEEEEE!
@ Oakley >:-)
rats! that was ‘sposed to be an emoticon sorry
slinks off to corner with book titled “Tech 4 Dummies”
is that her leeettle peenk tongue??? i can’t stand it!!!!
Check out the knobbulosity in pic numero deux! ANERABLE!!!1!
Yes!! And those eyelashes!
*plink*
*plink*
Isn’t there a rule of cuteness about ear-to-head ratio? AND knobbular knees? Wow!
i will give $5,000 cash if i could feed Thomson’s gazelle just once. I sure he wouldn’t mind… but then I’ll give it right back…. i won’t steal it or nuthin…. probably….
Tell ya what I’ma gonn’ do. Let me take the $5000 deposit.
I’ll look into the arrangements for you,
and call you when it’s all scheduled for ya!!
Signed,
(Used) Yugo Salesperson
It’s so dainty. It looks like one of those little porcelain animals they sell in gas stations sometimes.
/pet pet
To MR tOms0n,
S3nD US 21034532 bajlILiON cO0k1eS oR tHe gaZeLle G3tZ snoRGLes.
An0n.
he he.
A PBS special chronicled the Thomson’s gazelle. Unfortunately, it seemed to be one endless example of the little guys being eaten by everything in their environment: crocodiles, lions, cheetahs, leopards, and some large birds. Thomson’s Gazelle: Hors d’œuvre of the Serengeti. Drat you, PBS!
I won’t watch those anymore. Endless danger for tiny beings.
Hard to believe the same guy that makes the sub-machine guns and the deck sealant makes thse cute gazeles!
According to Wikutepedia, “gazelle” comes from Arabic غزال or ghazăl, which is related to ghazal, which means poetry.
Ahem,
I think that I shall never see
A Thomson’s quite as cute as thee.
If thou should sit beneath a tree,
Ghazal is what the scene would be.
A-thenkyew.
Qte story about these guys:
I was lucky enough to do a semester of study abroad in Kenya. These adorable gazelle were everywhere. Their cousins, the Grant’s Gazelle, are also all over the place as well. As our course was a Wildlife Biology course, we had to be able to differentiate.
Grant’s Gazelle are slightly larger than the tiny Tommies, but from afar, and taking into account individual variation, the subtle difference in size isn’t helpful in telling these leetle glitter clouds of cuteness, erm… I mean “species” apart.
Grant’s Gazelle have little white booties, whereas the Tommies do not (refer to sweet behbeh above). So, the way to differentiate the two? “Grant’s wear pants”. I’d have to say that is about the cutest mneumonic I’ve ever learned!
Regardless, some of the most adorable little animals on this big beautiful planet!
Bwa ha ha! ‘Grant’s wear pants’ is much better than ‘white above the tailio’.
So in honour of Blair and Foley, I offer another couple of stanzas of:
“Differentiating between Nanger and Eudorcus”, or,
“Ode to Joyce, a dude, in ungulate pentameter”:
Across the Serengeti prance
The Grant’s gazelle in granny-pants
And setting off their sturdy hocks
Are white and dainty little socks.
Poems are made by C.O.s like me,
But only Toms can make a tommy.
No, no no: A-thenkYEW.
AWESOME
*jumps up in a standing ovation* a TRUE masterpiece!
@ Sweet:
….”little white booties” = ???
Um… eh hem… well, uh… “les bums sont blancs?”
(It always sounds more lady-like in Fronche/Breetish….)