Grant's Gazelle - Fauna Clips

The Grant's gazelle stands 30-36 inches up to the shoulder and weighs 100-145 pounds.[citation needed] It's coat is beigy orange back with a white belly. The Grant's Gazelle looks similar to a Thomson's Gazelle except it has lyre-shaped horns are stout at the base, clearly ringed and measuring 18 to 32 inches long. The subspecies are segregated by different morphological characters such as; horn shape and slight differences in coat colour. [1] These differences are not indicative of ecological separation as with some species.[1]

Grant's gazelle is found in East Africa and lives in open grass plains and frequently found in bushy savannas; it avoids areas that has high grass. They also occur in semi-arid areas as well, and is relatively arid-adapted.[1]

The Grant's gazelle are herbivorous ungulates; they are primarily browsers than grazers. Their average diet consists of 65.8% browse and 34.3% graze. [2] Rainfall in their habitats seem to be the determinent of their diets. [2] Grant's gazelle's diet may also be responsible for the slow growth rates in the browsed plots.

Grant's gazelle is a gregarious, territorial, and migratory species.

The most common predators of the Grant's gazelle are Cheetahs [4] and African Wild Dog. Humans also tend to hunt gazelles. In the Serengeti, Grant's gazelle is a prey item but Thomson's gazelle is prefered by Cheetahs. But, in Nairobi National Park is prefered Grant's gazelle over Thomson's Gazelle, making it an important resource to the cheetah.

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I ♥ Gazelles!

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me too

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It's defending his calf from a serval

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Finally a mother gazelle is able to defend it's baby and itself from a predator, although a small one, it's nice to see.