Oregon Zoo Animals - Speke's Gazelle
Oregon Zoo Animals - Speke's Gazelle
scientific name
gazelli spekei
size/weight/height
Height: at shoulder 1.6-2 ft.
Length: 3.1-3.5 ft.
Weight: 33-55 lbs.
adaptations/coloration
Light grayish brown with a black flank stripe and a paler band above it • white buttocks with dark margins • pale face • horns with broad annulations: males 10-12.4” curving backwards in an “S”; females 6-10” straighter, steeper and thinner than male • Three to five folds of skin in nasal region, inflatable to the size of half a tennis ball, inflated to make an alarm call which sounds like a pistol shot.
habitat/range
Horn of Africa, on the Indian Ocean side of Somalia • Former range included eastern Ethiopia • Stony brush, grass steppes, semidesert.
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