BBC Earth News: Largest herd of gazelles sighted

/Home//Middle School Asia Steppes Homework Help/Middle School Steppes Wildlife

BBC Earth News: Largest herd of gazelles sighted
Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News

A mega-herd of a quarter of a million Mongolian gazelles has been seen gathering on the country's steppes, one of the world's last great wildernesses.

The coming together on the grassy plains is the largest ever recorded.

The biologists who saw it estimate it contained perhaps a quarter of all Mongolian gazelles on the planet.

"It was stunning," says Kirk Olson of the University of Massachusetts, US. "I don't know if I was surprised or simply blown away by what we came across."

Olson and colleagues based in the US and Mongolia have published details of the epic gathering in the journal Oryx.

Visit the web site for the rest of the article.