📸 PhotoPhoto: Светлана Царахова · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Thomson's Gazelle
Eudorcas thomsonii (Thomson's Gazelle · トムソンガゼル)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 It is one of the flagship herbivores supporting safari tourism in East Africa (Animal Diversity Web).
- 💡 Its maximum weight of 35 kg is just under two 20 kg bags of rice (Comparison).
- 💡 People also hunt it for its skin and meat (Animal Diversity Web).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
Thomson's Gazelle is a small gazelle living in dry grasslands of East Africa that stays in arid pastures longer than larger herbivores of the same region.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its back is reddish-brown, its belly is white, and a bold black stripe runs along each flank. Its rump is white, its tail is black, and a white stripe runs from the eye to the nose.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It grazes on short grasses and also eats acacia twigs and seeds during the dry season. It forms loose herds of 5–60 individuals, mates twice a year, and gives birth to a single calf at a time.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2018) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/8982/172360006
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1006143
- • iucnredlist.org — 172360006
- • wikidata.org — Q271705
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Eudorcas thomsonii 313407401 (cropped).jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Eudorcas thomsonii
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Matthew Speight · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Eudorcas rufifrons)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.