Endangered
Speke's gazelle
Gazella spekei
Speke's gazelle is a mammal in the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla) — Gazella spekei, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
It is confined to the Horn of Africa, where it inhabits stony brush, grass steppes, and semi deserts. Severe habitat fragmentation means it is now impossible to assess the natural migratory or nomadic patterns of G. Spekei. It is notable for its distinctively narrow and pointed face, and its large, inflatable nasal passages that it uses to produce a loud honking sound, especially during the breeding season as part of a display to attract mates.
Speke's gazelle is the smallest of the gazelle species.
Range and habitat
No country pin is stored for Speke's gazelle on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Its numbers are under threat, and despite an increase in population, the IUCN in 2007 announced its status had changed from vulnerable to endangered. A captive population is maintained, and the wild population exists in the lower tens of thousands. As of 2008, this gazelle is classified as endangered under the IUCN Red List.
Speke'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 Speke's gazelle, Wikidata item Q853403. 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.
