Gazella subgutturosa
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In 3 days >90%
The goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) or black-tailed gazelle is a gazelle native to Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of Iraq and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and in northwestern China and Mongolia. The specific name, meaning "full below the throat", refers to the male having an enlargement of the neck and throat during the mating season.
The goitered gazelle inhabits sands and gravel plains and limestone plateau. Large herds were also present in the Near East. Some 6,000 years ago, they were captured and killed with the help of desert kites. Rock art found in Jordan suggests that it was slaughtered ritually.
Its mating behaviour is polygynous and usually occurs in the early winter. It runs at high speed, without the leaping, bounding gait seen in other gazelle species. Throughout much of its range, the goitered gazelle migrates seasonally. Herds cover 10–30 km (6.2–18.6 mi) per day in the winter, with these distances being reduced to about 1–3 km (0.62–1.86 mi) in summer.
Several subspecies have been described, and four forms are distinguished... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park | 🇲🇳 Mongolia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohamed bin Zayed Nature Reserve | 🇧🇭 Bahrain | |
| 2 | Tiergarten Am Tiergarten 28 in Nürnberg | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 3 | Shymkent Zoo | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan | |
| 4 | Langenberg Wildlife Park | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
Very likely
About 70% of wildlife watchers report a Goitered Gazelle sighting in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park on a given day, based on 32 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 4th most-seen of the 12 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Goitered Gazelle sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park, in our data
Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Goitered Gazelle sightings: about 70% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Bovidae
The closest relatives of the Goitered Gazelle that you can see in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (family Bovidae, Bovids) are Siberian Ibex (about 80%), Argali (about 40%) and Mongolian Gazelle (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Goitered Gazelle is recorded against all the mammals logged in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (32 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
