The dama gazelle nanger dama is the largest gazelle weighing up to 75 kg 165 pounds and standing up to 120 cm 47 inches at the shoulder. Formerly common in the grasslands and subdesert of the sahel from mauritania to sudan it now exists only in endangered remnant populations.
There are about 19 species of gazelles that exist in the world.
Animal gazelle. Small gazelles include the thomson s gazelles and the speke s gazelle. It resembles the deer and antelope. Gazelles are known as swift animals.
Some are able to run at bursts as high as 100 km h 60 mph or. The gazelle is grouped in the same family as cattle goats and sheep. There are 16 different species of these antelope which live across africa the middle east and india.
It weighs in at 88 to 165 pounds 40 to 75 kg and is 4 5 to 5 5 feet tall 137 to 168 cm. A gazelle is any of many antelope species in the genus gazella this article also deals with the six species included in two further genera eudorcas and nanger which were formerly considered subgenera of gazella a third former subgenus procapra includes three living species of asian gazelles. The gazelle is a group of small antelope that make up the taxonomic genuses gazella eudorcas and nanger they are usually lean bodied swift runners.
The dama gazelle is the largest gazelle.
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