Tibetan Gazelle – “Mirror Goat”

Tibet is mystical and famous but yet a remote, distant and a hard to reach place, and there are many kind of animals in this beautiful area. Explore Tibet Team, a professional Tibet travel agency, and today introduce a lovely Tibet animal- Tibetan Gazelle to you.

Tibetan Gazelle - “Mirror Goat”

Tibetan Gazelle, also known as the gazelle, antelope, Tibetan Mongolian gazelle, it is a species of antelope that inhabits the Tibetan plateau. It is a typical highland animal whose habitat is between 3,000 and 5,750 meters in elevation. They are almost located in the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, and Sichuan, especially located in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and northwest Sichuan and southern Gansu.
The whole body of Tibetan Gazelle is grayish brown, and their coats will become greyer in color than in winter. Male Tibetan gazelle has a pair of long and flat black horns and sometimes it can reach 70 cm long, just like a pair of daggers. Tibetan Gazelle have no horns. Tibetan Gazelle has slender and graceful body, and it is relatively small antelopes, and the body size even smaller than Procapra przewalski. Adult Tibetan Gazelle can weigh 100 kilograms. It has broad nostrils, which can make loud shouts. It can run very fast. They have short tails in the center of their heart-shaped white rump patches, when it runs, its tail will erect, and its white hips will shine under the sun, just like a hanging mirror.
Tibetan Gazelle can live in various environments, such as all kinds of grasslands, or alpine meadows and steppe zones. But someplace with lush herbs and plentiful water would be their favorite chooses.
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