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Dama gazelle (Nanger dama dama)

Dama gazelle (Nanger dama dama)
Giant Eland, 25 Oct 2018
kermodei, Tiger, Therabu and 9 others like this.
    • Terry Thomas
      Nice photo.
      26 Oct 2018
    • jayjds2
      Does Al Ain have a breeding herd of these? Does any other zoo have this subspecies?
      25 Jul 2019
    • Giant Eland
      Unfortunately I'm not sure. I'm now actually doubting the subspecies choice I have here. Likely it's rather Mhorr gazelle (Nanger dama mhorr).
      25 Jul 2019
    • Mehdi
      Definitely Nanger dama mhorr.

      Nanger dama dama looks quite like ruficollis (and as such lacks the red mask typical to mhorr like is the case in this picture), except that the rufous area extends to the leg and that the shape of the white spot on their neck is different and smaller than on ruficollis. (see Klaus Rudloff's pictures on zootierliste or one of the drawings in the very interesting papers written by Royal Zoological Society of Scotland which I can't find anything about anymore except for a preview where you can see said drawing in the this link: speech bubbles)

      This is definitely a beautiful individual though with odd face markings.
      21 Jan 2020
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