Dama gazelle

Dama Gazelle
Gazella dama
Also Called: Addra Gazelle or Mhorr Gazelle
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Dama gazelle, Addra gazelle
Taxonomy Nanger dama [Pallas, 1766]. Citation: Misc. Zool., p. 5. Type locality: Africa, near Lake Chad.
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Dama gazelles are the focus of a new conservation project for Zoo scientists who will be working to save it from extinction by increasing the population of dama gazelles in captivity, ...

The Dama Gazelle - an icon of wild grace and swiftness - faces a precarious future in its arid range along the southern reaches of the Sahara Desert.

Like most desert species, the dama gazelle is highly nomadic, ranging widely in order to obtain sufficient nutrition.

Dama Gazelle
Physical Characters
The dama gazelle is the largest gazelle. The head, hindquarters, and the underbelly of this gazelle are white.

Dama gazelles form mixed herds of 10 to 20 animals which roam widely to find enough vegetation and water to survive.

Dama gazelles move into the Sahara in the wet season and out of the Sahara (both north and south) to moister parts of their range for the dry season.
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Addra Gazelle
(Dama gazelle)
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Scientific Name:
Gazella dama ruficollis
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This desert area is the last home to critically endangered dama gazelle (Mhorr gazelles are a subspecies of the dama gazelle) and addax (a hoofed mammal). Dama gazelle numbers have declined by 80% in the past 10 years.

Mhorr's gazelle is also referred to as the western dama gazelle. Dama gazelles are known for having extremely long legs, which raises their body off the hot desert sand to keep them cool.

- Desert antelope, like addaxes and Dama gazelles Gazella dama, do not need to drink water-they get moisture from their food. The gemsbok Oryx gazella gazella even eats wild melons called cucurbits.

Â- Neumann's Gazelle (G. erlangeri) Â- Speke's Gazelle (G. spekei) Â- Dorcas Gazelle (G. dorcas) Â- Saudi Gazelle (G. saudiya) Â- Chinkara (G. bennettii) Â- Thomson's Gazelle (G. thomsonii) Â- Red-fronted Gazelle (G. rufifrons) Â- Dama Gazelle (G.

The Red Book of Endangered Species includes Grevy's zebra and Hartmann's mountain zebra, Przewalski's horse, the Malayan tapir, babirusa, vicugna, Formosan sika deer, addax, Barbary sheep, dama gazelle, lechwe, gaur, anoa, ...

See also: Gazelle, Antelope, Oryx, Cheetah, Goat