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Grant’s gazelle
Nanger granti
-1.56374, 35.2501
Field Notes
Description:
The Grant’s gazelle has a beige-orange coat, a white belly and ringed lyre-shaped horns. It resembles Thomson's gazelles but is larger and also distinguished by the broad white patch on the rump that extends upward onto the back above the tail.
Habitat:
Open grass plains and shrublands. Distribution: from northern Tanzania to southern Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Spotted here in the Masai Mara.
Notes:
Grant's gazelles can show a high level of genetic variation. Some varieties of Grant's have a black stripe on each side of the body like the Thomson's gazelle; in others the stripe is very light or absent, as in the one shown here. Thomson’s gazelles spotted nearby can be seen at http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7542903
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PublishedOctober 16, 2011
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