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Nanger granti
The Grant’s gazelle has a beige-orange coat, a white belly and ringed lyre-shaped horns. It resembles Thomson's gazelles but is larger and also distinguished by the broad white patch on the rump that extends upward onto the back above the tail.
Open grass plains and shrublands. Distribution: from northern Tanzania to southern Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Spotted here in the Masai Mara.
Grant's gazelles can show a high level of genetic variation. Some varieties of Grant's have a black stripe on each side of the body like the Thomson's gazelle; in others the stripe is very light or absent, as in the one shown here. Thomson’s gazelles spotted nearby can be seen at http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/754...
Spotted on Aug 28, 2011
Submitted on Oct 16, 2011
3 Comments
Welcome.
Thank you Satyen!
Great.