Saiga
Saiga tatarica
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 375
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica, ) or saiga is a species of antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe, spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast. During the Pleistocene, it ranged across the mammoth steppe from the British Isles to Beringia. Today, the dominant subspecies (S.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Saiga antelope”.