DISCOVERY: Searching for the rare sable antelope in Shimba Hills

Antelope.

Female sable antelope in Shimba Hills National Reserve. PHOTO | RUPI MANGAT

We’re in Shimba Hills National Reserve in search of the rare sable antelope. It has long backward curved horns and is so rare that the Kenyan species known as Hippotragus niger roosevelti is found only in the protected 192-square-kilometre reserve.

It’s late evening when we drive into the reserve on the high ridges of the Shimba Hills near the famed beaches of Tiwi and Diani at Kenya's Coast.