Endangered
Heuglin's gazelle
Eudorcas tilonura
Heuglin's gazelle is a mammal in the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla) — Eudorcas tilonura, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The coat is dark reddish brown, except for the underparts and the rump that are white. The face is darker in the middle, and there are white circles around the eyes. The larger and paler Soemmerring's gazelle shares its range with Heuglin's gazelle in southwestern Eritrea, and has short, heavy horns curved backward with tips pointing inward, a whiter rump and short white hairs on the tail.
The head-and-body length is between 55 and 120 cm (22 and 47 in), and the shoulder height is nearly 67 cm (26 in).
Range and habitat
The range is east of the Nile River and patchy, bounded by the southern Red Sea Hills in Sudan and mountainous terrain in northwestern Ethiopia and western Eritrea. Heuglin's gazelles inhabit open areas such as steppes, dry grasslands and thorn bushlands up to an elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft). Numbers have plummeted in Eritrea. In 2019 the Forestry and Wild Life Authority of Eritrea declared that Heuglin's gazelle had been sighted again in the country in the Dige sub-zone (Gash-Barka Region).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Heuglin's gazelles lead solitary lives or form groups of two to four. Herbivores, they possibly browse as well as graze.
Jackals may prey on young. Hyaenas may also be potential predators. Little is known about the ecology and behaviour of Heuglin's gazelles. They typically remain solitary or form groups of two to four.
In crisis
Habitat loss and illegal hunting for meat are major threats to the survival of these gazelles. Populations might have fallen by 20% in roughly nine years after 2008. As of 2016, only 2,500 to 3,500 individuals remain in small fragmented groups, with fewer than 2,500 adults. Heuglin's gazelle is classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
The IUCN Red List classifies Heuglin's gazelle as Endangered. As of 2016, only 2,500 to 3,500 individuals remain in small fragmented groups, with fewer than 2,500 adults.
Heuglin's gazelle is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Heuglin's gazelle, Wikidata item Q27980418. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
