Summary ³

The saiga antelope (/ˈsaɪɡə/, Saiga tatarica) is a critically endangered antelope that originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia. In the more distant past it occurred in the mammoth steppe of northern Russia as well.

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1. (c) Navinder Singh, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saiga_tartarica.jpg
2. (c) Stan van Remmerden, all rights reserved, uploaded by Stan van Remmerden
3. Adapted by Stan van Remmerden from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga_tatarica

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