Heuglin's Gazelle

Heuglin's gazelle, Eudorcas tilonura, is a species of gazelle found east of the Nile River in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan. Some authors in the past treated it as a subspecies of the red-fronted gazelle or as the same species as Thomson's gazelle and the Mongalla gazelle. It is a small gazelle, standing nearly 67 centimetres at the shoulder and weighing 15 to 35 kilograms, with a dark reddish brown coat, a dark stripe on the flanks and white underparts and rump. Both sexes have horns 15 to 35 centimetres long. It lives in steppes, dry grasslands and thorn bushland up to 1,400 metres. Habitat loss and illegal hunting threaten it, and only 2,500 to 3,500 individuals remained in 2016.