>>6286896No, the gazelles just need to make sure there is at least one other gazelle they can outrun.
Eg:
Two men are walking across the savannah, when they see a cheetah in the distance, running towards them. The first chap asks if they should think about running back to their jeep a mile or two away. But the second one doesn't reply; he just takes some running shoes from his bag, carefully puts them on.
“What are you doing?” says the first man “Do you think you will be able to outrun the cheetah wearing those?”
“I don’t have to run faster than the cheetah,” he says. “I just have to run faster than you.”