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Copyright: Lucas Aguilar (laguilar)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-09-17 |
| Categories: Mammals |
| Camera: Olympus Camedia C-765 UZ |
| Exposure: f/3.2, 1/800 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-03-30 3:57 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Spanish] |
GAZELLE DORCAS
Class: Mammals.
Order: Artiodactyla.
Family: Bovidae.
Height: 55-65 cm.
I weigh: 20-23 kg.
Length horns: 25-38 cm.
Habitat: Semidesert, dunes of sand and stony desert. Flat and rocky places. Distribution North of Africa and Arabic Peninsula.
Nourishment: Herbivorous.
Gestation: 6 months.
Litter: 1 baby, rarely 2.
Longevity: 12 years.
Description:
Small gazelle without any distribution of color confirmed(resisted) in the body. Coloration dun yellowish sandy, with a tenuous band dun yellowish reddish along the low part of the flanks, never negress, contrasting with the white abdomen. A central band dun reddish in the face and a brownish-gray yellowish stripe from the eye up to the mouth, both separated by a white band from the base of the horn up to the top lip. Long dun locks of hair in the knees of the front legs. White buttocks and black tail. Horns in the shape of lira, strongly ring-shaped, curled backward and softly divergent, converging later inward, with the puntas doubled up in a marked well curve. The female belongs similar to the macho, but with the most short, more light and less curled horns.
Nourishment
Herbivorous. Hard herbs of the desert, succulent plants (that provides liquid to them) and leaves of acacia compose basically his nourishment. They are main certifications in the struggle against the thirst. They complete his nourishment with grasshopper and his larvas, undoubtedly to complete the food of the desert, poor person in albumen.
Reproduction
In the north of Africa the epoch of matching begins in August and lasts until October. The males in zeal emit a kind of bleat, snore or puff; for it insufla lightly the nose. In the matching the macho mounts to the career. The gestation lasts 6 months and the females separate of the group to give birth to the baby, rarely two babies give birth.. The weight of the baby is 1,3-1,7 kg. The period of lactation is 2-3 months. The sexual maturity is reached to 9 months in the females and to 18 months in the males.
Customs and social life
They develop his activities during the day. They live in small groups but the adult males have great trend to the loneliness and live isolated from the flock, sheltering in individual resting-places. The resting-places are shallow holes or authentic craters placed to lee of some shrub, which not only it protects to the animal of the wind but also he hides it from the enemy looks. When a macho leaves his place of rest, they leave in the center of this one a fresh deposition on the urine and that is cleaned when the reinnkeeper is going to be used again, it is a question of a significantly territorial marking.
From the zoo of Jerez de la Frontera. |
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