#0396 · 🦊 mammals

Grant's Gazelle

🇳🇱 Grantgazelle ·Nanger granti

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The Grant's gazelle ( Nanger granti ) is a species of gazelle distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Its Swahili name is Swala Granti . It was named for a 19th-century Scottish explorer, Lt Col Grant.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,152iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,152 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Victor Brooke in 1872 (154 years ago).