The animal - called an Upemba Lechwe - was spotted in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in central Africa.

Taken moments before the animal fled, the image is the “first published photograph” of this critically endangered African antelope.

The zoo said that Nyala, an African antelope, briefly escaped from its ... Video shows the type of species that escaped.

Researchers photographed a rare Upemba lechwe, a critically endangered African antelope ... known about this antelope for decades and, although they debate its exact species classification ...