Species group · Mammals

Gazelles

WAnimals has 7 species of gazelle, in the family Bovidae.

7 species

1 family

73 countries

34 parks

All 7 species of gazelles on WAnimals

Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.

4 Vulnerable1 Near Threatened1 Least Concern1 Critically Endangered

5 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.

Recorded in 73 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:

It uses a distinctive zigzag escape run to shake off a pursuer.
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It feeds on nutritious short grasses, shoots and leaves.
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It lives in the short dry grassland and shrub savanna of Kenya and Tanzania, including the Serengeti and the Maasai Mara.
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It can go its whole life without drinking, living off the water in plants.
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It tolerates body temperatures that would be fatal to almost any other mammal, an adaptation to the extreme heat of its plains.
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It does not need to drink: it gets all its water from plants, and on migration it moves in the opposite direction to most African ungulates, away from water.
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It can go its whole life without drinking, taking its water from plants.
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It can go its whole life without drinking a drop: it takes its water from leaves, shoots and dew, and its kidneys concentrate the urine to a degree very few mammals reach.