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Nanger dama (dama gazelle)

Synonyms: Antilope dama (homotypic); Gazella dama

Wikipedia Abstract

The dama gazelle, addra gazelle, or mhorr gazelle (Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama) is a species of gazelle. It lives in Africa in the Sahara desert and the Sahel. This critically endangered species has disappeared from most of its former range due to overhunting and habitat loss, and natural populations only remain in Chad, Mali, and Niger. Its habitat includes grassland, shrubland, semi-deserts, open savanna and mountain plateaus. Their diets includes grasses, leaves (especially Acacia leaves), shoots, and fruit.
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Infraspecies

Nanger dama dama
Nanger dama mhorr
Nanger dama ruficollis

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Nanger dama

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  160.938 lbs (73.00 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  3 months 19 days
Gestation [1]  6 months 28 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  19 years
Migration [4]  Intracontinental
Snout to Vent Length [3]  5.182 feet (158 cm)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve 15953123 Niger      
Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve 19768430 Chad      
Termit et de Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve 23969222 Niger      

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External References

Citations

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♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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