This may enter the realms of 'too much information' but, in 1989, I was driving from Arusha, in northern Tanzania, up to Kenya. Stopping to answer nature's call, I disappeared into the bush, with my shovel and a roll of loo paper, and startled a small group of gerenuk, who quickly dispersed. It is the only occasion on which I have seen them in the wild. Given that I was at least 20 miles from the Kenyan border, I now realise how lucky I was.....