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Dorcas gazelle

Order : Artiodactyla
Family : Bovidae
Subfamily : Antilopinae
Species : Gazella dorcas

The Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is closely related to the mountain gazelle, but is different on a few points. They have longer ears and they have curvier horns. The Dorcas gazelles live in northern Africa, and the Sahara and Negev deserts in Morocco, Rio de Oro, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Somalia and Ethiopia. In the Middle East they live in parts of Israel and Sinai. The coloring in subspecies is different, in the Northern Sahara, they are an ocher color and they have darker flanking stripes. But the population near the Red Sea, has a more reddish-brown and lighter flanking stripes.

Their diet consists of leaves, flowers and pods of Acacian trees and various bushes.

When they feel threatened they sound their alarm call which sounds like barking. When chased, these gazelles use "stotting" (leaping straight up during pursuit by a predator) as a method to signal their fitness to the predator and warn other gazelles a predator is present. Dorcas gazelles can reach speeds of up to 80 km/hr. Their natural predators are the lion, cheetah and the leopard, but their main threats are habitat destruction, hunting, and the introduction of domestic sheep and goats.

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Facts about the dorcas gazelle

Dorcas Gazelle All About A Dorcas Gazelle The dorcas gazelles are found in Africa.

4 lbs) Dorcas gazelle is the second smallest species of gazelle. (Full text)

(Deuteronomy 12:15,22; 15:22; 1 Kings 4:23) noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form (2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:8)(The Song of Solomon 2:9; 7:3; 8:14) The gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is found in great numbers in Palestine. (Full text)

The Arabian Dorcas gazelle is all white underneath to reflect heat radiated upwards from the ground surface. (Full text)

html The Dorcas Gazelle (Gazella dorcas: The Dorcas Gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is the smallest gazelle in the world. (Full text)

The Dorcas Gazelle is a [CITIES-listed Endangered Species] (Full text)

The Dorcas gazelle is considered to be a low risk, near threatened species by the IUCN (2000). (Full text)

About 10 species and subspecies of gazelles, including Loder's gazelle and three kinds of dorcas gazelles, are endangered. (Full text)

Animals of the Desert The Dorcas gazelle is rare. (Full text)

Animals of MoroccoThe Land l The Capital l The People Dorcas Gazelle - is the smallest of all gazelles, but also has the longest legs. (Full text)

The gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is found in great numbers in Palestine. (Full text)

Dorcas Gazelles are living in the wild in the M'Sabih Talaa reserves, in the area which is to become the Bas Draa national park and in the royal hunting grounds of Agadir and Bouznika; this species has been reintroduced into the Souss Massa national park and the reserves of Bou Assila, Jbilet and the R'mila Bour royal reserve. (Full text)

And dorcas gazelles are still quite common throughout the region. (Full text)

Dorcas gazelles are the most abundant; they are joined by other grazers such as addax antelope and Cuvier’s gazelles. (Full text)

Rare dorcas gazelles are as delightfully graceful as in Solomon's Song of Songs: "My beloved is like a gazelle. (Full text)

Dorcas GazelleThe Dorcas gazelle or the gazella dorcas is from the bovidae family. (Full text)

Conservation Status The dorcas gazelle is considered to be a low risk, near threatened species by the IUCN (1996). (Full text)

In the Baga area west of el-Dueim and in the extensive desert reaches west of Omdurman to the eastern boundaries of Northern Kordofan and north of Omdurman to the southern boundaries of the Nile Province, large numbers of dorcas gazelles are present. (Full text)

The smallest gazelleDorcas gazelles are the smallest gazelles. (Full text)

The dorcas gazelle is a small ungulate found typically in the extensive deserts of North Africa, the Sinai peninsula, Palestine and Arabia; (Full text)