#0159 · 🦊 mammals

Saiga

🇳🇱 Saïga ·Saiga tatarica

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

The saiga antelope (/ˈsaɪɡə/, Saiga tatarica ) is a critically endangered antelope that originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 661iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

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.
661 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).