Mountain gazelle[1]
Mountain gazelle (male)
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Antilopinae
Genus:	Gazella
Species:	G. gazella
Binomial name
Gazella gazella (Pallas, 1766)

The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed across the Arabian Peninsula. It inhabits mountains, foothills and coastal plains. Its range coincides closely with that of the acacia trees that grow in these areas. It is mainly a grazing species, though this varies with food availability. It is less well adapted to hot, dry conditions than the Dorcas gazelle which appears to have replaced the Mountain Gazelle through some of its range during the late Holocene in a period of climatic warming. There are less than 15,000 mountain gazelles left within their natural range, more than 10,000 of these being of Arabian mountain gazelle subspecies, G. g. cora, less than 3,000 of Palestine mountain gazelles, G. g. gazella, less than 1,000 of G. g. farasani, less than 250 of G. g. muscatensis, and 19 of subspecies G. g. acaiae. Mountain gazelles can reach running speeds of up to 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph).^[3]

References[link]

1. ^ Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). "Gazella gazella". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200571. 
2. ^ IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (2008). "Gazella gazella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/8970. Retrieved 22 August 2011. 
3. ^ Lee, K.. "Gazella gazella". Animal Diversity Web. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Gazella_gazella.html. Retrieved 22 August 2011. 

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