Everything about the wildebeest is amusing, so much so that the presence or absence of this antelope cannot go unnoticed. In her book, Portraits in the Wild, Cynthia Moss describes wildebeests as absurd-looking animals, often making weird dancing around movements when excited. There were fears that the species was becoming extinct in Amboseli National Park as less than 50 individuals were counted during the peak of last year’s drought. The March 2010 total count of the Amboseli ecosystem revealed that 83% of the wildebeests had died.