The gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is the type of a sub-family of antelopes (the Gazellinae), which includes some 23 species of small, mostly desert-living forms. The gazelle is a light fawn colour upon the back, deepening into dark-brown in a wide band which edges the flanks and forms a line of demarcation between the colour of the upper portions of the body and the pure white of the abdomen. The eye of the gazelle is large, soft, and lustrous. Both sexes are provided with horns, round, black, and lyrated, about 33 cm long. The gazelle is found to the north side of the Atlas Mountains, in Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Arabia, and South Iraq. Research Gazelle
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Abbreviations
Nature
Research Gazelle
