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{{Short description|Genus of mammals}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Gazella''
| fossil_range = [[Miocene]]-Recent {{fossilrange|14|0}}
| image = Chinkara - Shreeram M V - Bikaner.jpg
| image_caption = [[Chinkara]] from [[Thar Desert]], [[Rajasthan]], [[India]]
| taxon = Gazella
| authority = [[w:Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville|Blainville]], 1816
| type_species = ''[[Gazella dorcas|Capra dorcas]]''<ref>{{MSW3|id=14200551}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = Several, see text
}}A '''gazelle''' is one of many [[antelope]] species in the [[genus]] '''''Gazella''''' {{IPAc-en|g|ə|ˈ|z|ɛ|l|ə}}.<ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Gazella}}</ref> There are also seven species included in two further genera; ''[[Eudorcas]]'' and ''[[Nanger]]'', which were formerly considered [[subgenera]] of ''Gazella''. A third former subgenus, ''[[Procapra]]'', includes three living species of Asian gazelles.

Gazelles are known as swift animals. Some can run at bursts as high as {{Convert|60|mph|km/h|abbr=on|order=flip|sigfig=1}} or run at a sustained speed of {{Convert|30|mph|km/h|abbr=on|order=flip|sigfig=1}}.<ref>"Gazelle". The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2007, Columbia University Press.</ref> Gazelles are found mostly in the deserts, grasslands, and [[savanna]]s of [[Africa]], but they are also found in [[Southwest Asia|southwest]] and [[central Asia]] and the [[Indian subcontinent]]. They tend to live in herds, and eat fine, easily digestible plants and leaves.

Gazelles are relatively small antelopes, most standing {{convert|2|-|3.5|ft|cm|abbr=on|order=flip|-1}} high at the shoulder, and are generally [[Fawn (colour)|fawn-colored]].

The gazelle genera are ''Gazella'', ''Eudorcas'', and ''Nanger''. The [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]] of these genera is confused, and the classification of [[species]] and [[subspecies]] has been an unsettled issue. Currently, the genus ''Gazella'' is widely considered to contain about 10 species.<ref>{{Citation |title=The curious case of Gazella arabica | author=Eva Verena Bärmann|display-authors=etal | journal=Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde | year=2013 | volume=78 | issue=3 | pages=220–225 | doi=10.1016/j.mambio.2012.07.003| bibcode=2013MamBi..78..220B}}</ref> One species is extinct: the [[Queen of Sheba's gazelle]]. Most surviving gazelle species are considered [[threatened]] to varying degrees. Closely related to the true gazelles are the [[Goa (antelope)|Tibetan goa]], and [[Mongolian gazelle]]s (species of the genus ''Procapra''), the [[blackbuck]] of Asia, and the African [[springbok]].

One widely familiar gazelle is the African species [[Thomson's gazelle]] (''Eudorcas thomsonii''), sometimes referred to as a "tommie". It is around {{Convert|60|to|70|cm|in|sigfig=2|abbr=on}} in shoulder height and is coloured brown and white with a distinguishing black stripe. The males have long, often curved, horns. Like many other prey species, tommies exhibit a distinctive behaviour of [[stotting]] (running and jumping high before fleeing) when they are threatened by predators such as [[cheetah]]s, [[lion]]s, [[African wild dog]]s, [[crocodile]]s, [[hyena]]s, and [[leopard]]s.

==Etymology==
[[Image:תמונה 1108.jpg|thumb|250px|Byzantine-era mosaic of gazelle in [[Caesarea (modern town)|Caesarea, Israel]]]]
''Gazelle'' is derived from [[French language|French]] ''gazelle'', [[Old French]] ''gazel'', probably via [[Old Spanish]] ''gacel'', probably from North African pronunciation of {{langx|ar|غزال}} ''{{Transliteration|ar|DIN|ġazāl}}'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=gazelle {{!}} Etymology, origin and meaning of gazelle by etymonline |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/gazelle |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=www.etymonline.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Skeat|gazelle|page=236}}</ref> [[Maghrebi Arabic|Maghrebi]] pronunciation ''{{Transliteration|ar|DIN|ġazēl}}''.<ref name="cnrtl">{{cite web|url=http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/gazelle|title=gazelle|website=CNRTL}}</ref> To Europe it first came to [[Old Spanish]] and [[Old French]],<ref name="cnrtl" /> and then around 1600 the word entered the [[English language]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Definition of GAZELLE|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gazelle|access-date=2023-02-23|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en}}</ref> The [[Arab people]] traditionally hunted the gazelle. Later appreciated for its grace, however, it became a symbol most commonly associated in [[Arabic]] literature with human beauty.<ref name=abouseifp53>{{cite book|title=Beauty in Arabic culture|first1=Doris|last1=Behrens-billAbouseif|edition=Illustrated|publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers|year=1999|isbn=9781558761995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQ2aFwUR3mgC&pg=PA53|page=53}}</ref><ref>Jokha Alharthi (PhD), (Sultan Qaboos University, College of Arts and Social Sciences - Arabic Department)   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288181275_The_Representation_of_the_Beloved's_Body_in_classical_Arabic_Poetry   Note in particular pages 7 and 8 of this (linked-to) paper published at a conference in 2015.</ref> In many countries in northwestern [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], the gazelle is commonly referred to as "dangelo", meaning "swift deer".<ref>{{cite web| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/roJ97b4t-dE|  archive-date=2021-12-05 | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roJ97b4t-dE&feature=youtu.be| title = Dangelo (swift deer) | website=[[YouTube]]| date = 21 December 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Species==
{{Hatnote|For gazelle species by population, see [[List of even-toed ungulates by population]]}}
The gazelles are divided into three genera and numerous species.<ref>{{cite web|title=Antilopinae|url=http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Cetartiodactyla/Antilopinae.html|access-date=2008-07-01}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Genus !! Common and binomial names !! class="unsortable"| Image !! Range
|-
| rowspan="10" | ''Gazella''
| [[Arabian gazelle]]<br>''G. arabica''
| [[File:Arabian Gazelle.jpg|120px]]
| [[Arabian Peninsula]]
|-
| [[Cuvier's gazelle]]<br>''G. cuvieri''
| [[File:Cuvier's Gazelle.jpg|120px]]
| [[Algeria]], [[Morocco]] and [[Tunisia]]
|-
| [[Dorcas gazelle]]<br>''G. dorcas''
| [[File:Gazella dorcas, Israel.jpg|120px]]
| North and saharan [[Africa]], [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]] and Southern [[Israel]]
|-
| [[Goitered gazelle]]<br>''G. subgutturosa''
| [[File:Gazella subgutturosa 2018.jpg|120px]]
|[[Azerbaijan]], eastern [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], part of [[Iran]], parts of [[Iraq]] and southwestern [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]] and the [[Gobi Desert]]
|-
| [[Arabian sand gazelle]]<br>''G. marica''
| [[File:Sand gazelle (gazella subgutturosa marica).jpg|120px]]
| [[Syrian Desert]], southeastern [[Turkey]], and [[Arabian Desert]]
|-
| [[Chinkara]] or <br>Indian gazelle<br>''G. bennettii''
| [[File:Chinkara.jpg|120px]]
| [[Iran]], [[Pakistan]] and [[India]]
|-
| [[Mountain gazelle]]<br>''G. gazella''
| [[File:Gazella gazella.jpg|120px]]
|  [[Israel]], the [[Golan Heights]], the [[West Bank]], [[Dubai]] and [[Turkey]]
|-
| [[Rhim gazelle]]<br>''G. leptoceros''
| [[File:Slender-horned gazelle (Cincinnati Zoo).jpg|120px]]
| [[Algeria]], [[Chad]], [[Egypt]], [[Libya]] and [[Sudan]]
|-
| [[Speke's gazelle]]<br>''G. spekei''
| [[File:Speke's Gazelle - Gazella spekei.jpg|120px]]
| [[Horn of Africa]]
|-
| [[Erlanger's gazelle]]<br>''G. erlangeri''
|
| [[Arabian Peninsula]]
|-
| rowspan="4" | ''Eudorcas''
| [[Mongalla gazelle]]<br>''E. albonotata''
| [[file:Eudorcas albonotata head.jpg|120px]]
| Floodplain and [[Sudanian Savanna|savanna]] of [[South Sudan]]
|-
| [[Red-fronted gazelle]]<br>''E. rufifrons''
| [[File:Gazella rufifrons AB.jpg|120px]]
| The [[Sahel region]] of central [[Africa]]
|-
| [[Red gazelle]]<br>''E. rufina''
| [[file:Eudorcas rufina.jpg|120px]]
| Mountain areas of [[North Africa]]
|-
| [[Thomson's gazelle]]<br>''E. thomsonii''
| [[File:Eat228.jpg|120px]]
| [[East Africa]]
|-
| rowspan="3" | ''Nanger''
| [[Dama gazelle]]<br>''N. dama''
| [[File:MhorrGazelleza.jpg|120px]]
| [[Sahara desert]] and the [[Sahel]]
|-
| [[Grant's gazelle]]<br>''N. granti''
| [[File:Ngorongoro Grant-Gazelle.jpg|120px]]
| Northern [[Tanzania]] to [[South Sudan]] and [[Ethiopia]], and from the [[Kenya]]n coast to [[Lake Victoria]]
|-
| [[Soemmerring's gazelle]]<br>''N. soemmerringii''
| [[File:Soemmerring's Gazelle, St. Louis Zoo.jpg|120px]]
| [[Horn of Africa]]
|-
|}

===Prehistoric species===
Fossils of genus ''Gazella'' are found in [[Miocene]], [[Pliocene]] and [[Pleistocene]] deposits of Eurasia and Africa, which occupuied a broader distribution that modern members of the genus. The earliest members of the genus are known from the Middle Miocene of Africa, around 14 million years ago with members of the genus inhabiting Europe from the Late Miocene until their extinction in the region during the Early Pleistocene around 1.8 million years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bellucci |first1=Luca |last2=Sardella |first2=Raffaele |date=January 2015 |title=The last Antilopini bovids from the Early Pleistocene of Italy |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618214008908 |journal=Quaternary International |language=en |volume=357 |pages=245–252 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.024|bibcode=2015QuInt.357..245B |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* Genus ''Gazella''
** ''[[Gazella borbonica]]'' -  Early Pleistocene Europe
** ''[[Gazella capricornis]]'' - Miocene Asia<ref name=Solounias1994>{{cite journal |last1= Solounias |first1= N. |last2= Moelleken |first2= S.M.C. |last3= Plavcan |first3= J.M. |date= 1995 |title= Predicting the diet of extinct bovids using masseteric morphology |journal= Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume= 15 |issue= 4 |pages= 195–805 |doi= 10.1080/02724634.1995.10011262|bibcode= 1995JVPal..15..795S }}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella harmonae]]'' - [[Pliocene]] of [[Ethiopia]], unusual spiral horns<ref name=Geraads2012>{{cite journal | author = Geraads, D.| year = 2012 | title = Pliocene Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation of Hadar and Ledi-Geraru, Lower Awash, Ethiopia | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 32 | issue = 1 | pages = 180–197 | doi = 10.1080/02724634.2012.632046|display-authors=etal| title-link = Ledi-Geraru | bibcode = 2012JVPal..32..180G | s2cid = 86230742 }}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella praethomsoni]]'' - Pliocene Africa <ref name=Geraads2012/>
** ''[[Gazella negevensis]]'' - Early Miocene Asia<ref name=Tchernov1986>{{cite journal |last1= Tchernov |first1= E. |last2= Ginsburg |first2= L. |display-authors=etal |date= 1987 |title= Miocene mammals of the Negev (Israel) |journal= Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume= 7 |issue= 3 |pages= 284–310 |doi= 10.1080/02724634.1987.10011661|bibcode= 1987JVPal...7..284T }}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella thomasi]]'' - Thomas's gazelle<ref name=Geraads2010>{{cite journal |last1= Geraads |first1= D.|last2= Raynal |first2= J.|last3= Sbihi-Alaoui |first3= F. |date= February 2010 |title= Mammalian faunas from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Casablanca (Morocco) |journal= Historical Biology |volume= 22 |issue= 1–3 |pages= 275–285 |doi= 10.1080/08912960903458011|bibcode= 2010HBio...22..275G|s2cid= 128756698}}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella vanhoepeni]]'' - Pliocene Africa <ref name="Sponheimer1999">{{cite journal |last1=Sponheimer |first1=M. |last2=Reed |first2=K.E. |author-link2=Kaye Reed |last3=Lee-Thorp |first3=J.A. |date=June 1999 |title=Combining isotopic and ecomorphological data to refine bovid paleodietary reconstruction: a case study from the Makapansgat Limeworks hominin locality |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=705–718 |doi=10.1006/jhev.1999.0300 |pmid=10330334|bibcode=1999JHumE..36..705S }}</ref>
* Subgenus ''[[Vetagazella]]''
** ''[[Gazella altidens]]'' <ref name=Khan2009>{{cite journal |last1= Khan |first1= A. |date= 2009 |title= Mammalian new remains from chinji|journal= The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences |volume= 19 |issue= 4 |pages= 224–229 |url= https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/33212748/mammalian_new_remains_from_chinji-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1660471800&Signature=Og2UZssgp24JywvPzLzdQ8eU0XGuHDKA9-PB6pepxz-6ZqCuo8DvmePuPh2U1tgcDAA0LcKqn31JMrZ0bGvjCL1BGoTDofDtLbDbISm-SURj5d~jQvvttEQVajNgih2sHUkCAIPwQxlsZgeLCr4lcNtPUeaiYSzkAIPXmwXdP0ijiUdbmiKInS~vvNCWv0y-8m95EtZ8xOiqu62IjLtYUfO36mM1EQcj3rnalalXczsOLqg~f-R0lupIszg80FsMiXKMW8R4O02LNv03mgG3UQoKYiLw6lSi4k~fmiUd~bNH6MK6am-zesXJKPTEMHJky-ylhrovQG9VA0JmGzMyQw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA|access-date= 14 August 2022}}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella blacki]]'' - Pliocene Asia<ref name=Chen1997>{{cite journal |last1= Chen |first1= G. |date= 1997 |title= ''Gazella blacki'' Teilhard and Young, 1931 (Bovicae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Pliocene of Hefeng, Jingle District, Shanxi Province |url= http://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/Y1997/V35/I03/189 |journal= Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume= 35 |issue= 3 |pages= 189–200 |access-date= 14 August 2022}}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella deperdita]]'' - Late Miocene Europe<ref name=Merceron2005>{{cite journal |last1= Merceron |first1= G. |last2= de Bonis |first2= L. |display-authors=etal |date= February 2005 |title= Dental microwear of fossil bovids from northern Greece: paleoenvironmental conditions in the eastern Mediterranean during the Messinian |journal= Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume= 217 |issue= 3–4 |pages= 173–185 |doi= 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.11.019|bibcode= 2005PPP...217..173M |url= http://doc.rero.ch/record/13425/files/PAL_E235.pdf }}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella dorcadoides]]'' - Middle Miocene Asia<ref name=Khan2021/>
** ''[[Gazella pilgrimi]]'' - Late Miocene Europe<ref name=Bouvrain1996>{{cite journal |last1= Bouvrain |first1= G. |date= 1996 |title= The gazelles from the late Miocene of Macedonia, Greece |journal= Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie |volume= 199 |issue= 1 |pages= 111–32 |doi= 10.1127/njgpa/199/1996/111}}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella gaudryi]]'' - Middle Miocene Eurasia<ref name=Khan2021>{{cite journal |last1= Khan |first1= M.A. |last2= Asim |first2= M. |display-authors=etal |date= August 2021 |title= New remains of ''Gazella'' (Bovidae) from Middle Miocene, Pakistan |journal= Arabian Journal of Geosciences |volume= 14 |issue= 17|pages= 1703 |doi= 10.1007/s12517-021-07885-8|bibcode= 2021ArJG...14.1703K |s2cid= 236948573 }}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella kueitensis]]'' - Pliocene Asia<ref name=Meng2010>{{cite journal |last1= Meng |first1= X.|last2= Zhu |first2= D. |display-authors=etal |date= September 2010 |title= Late Cenozoic stratigraphy and paleomagnetic chronology of the Zanda Basin, Tibet, and records of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau |journal= Acta Geologica Sinica |volume= 82 |issue= 1 |pages= 63–72 |doi= 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2008.tb00325.x|s2cid= 128749824}}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella lydekkeri]]'' - Mid to Late Miocene Asia<ref name=Khan2009/>
** ''[[Gazella paotehensis]]'' - Middle Miocene Asia<ref name=Khan2021/>
** ''[[Gazella paragutturosa]]'' - Pleistocene Asia<ref name=Leslie2010>{{cite journal |last1= Leslie |first1= D.M. |date= July 2010 |title= ''Procapra picticaudata'' (Artiodactyla: Bovidae) |journal= Mammalian Species |volume= 42 |issue= 861 |pages= 138–148 |doi= 10.1644/861.1|s2cid= 20998647 |doi-access= free }}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella parasinensis]]'' - Pliocene Asia<ref name=Vislobokova2005>{{cite journal |last1= Vislobokova |first1= I. |date= 2005 |title= On Pliocene faunas with Proboscideans in the territory of the former Soviet Union |journal= Quaternary International |volume= 126-128 |pages= 93–105 |doi= 10.1016/j.quaint.2004.04.017|bibcode= 2005QuInt.126...93V }}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella praegaudryi]]'' - Pleistocene Africa
** ''[[Gazella sinensis]]'' - Pliocene Asia<ref name=Vislobokova1995>{{cite journal |last1= Vislobokova |first1= I. |last2= Dmitrieva |first2= E. |last3= Kalmykov |first3= N. |date= 1995 |title= Artiodactyls From the Late Pliocene of Udunga, Western Trans-Baikal, Russia |journal= Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume= 15 |issue= 1 |pages= 146–159 |doi= 10.1080/02724634.1995.10011214|bibcode= 1995JVPal..15..146V }}</ref>
** ''[[Gazella brianus]]'' - Pliocene Asia<ref name="Vislobokova2005" />
* Subgenus ''Gazella''
** ''[[Gazella janenschi]]'' - Pliocene Africa<ref name=Fillion2022>{{cite journal |last1= Fillion |first1= E.N. |last2= Harrison |first2= T. |last3= Kwekason |first3= A. |date= June 2022 |title= A nonanalog Pliocene ungulate community at Laetoli with implications for the paleoecology of ''Australopithecus afarensis'' |journal= Journal of Human Evolution |volume= 167 |pages= 103182 |doi= 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103182|pmid= 35428490 |s2cid= 248141011 |doi-access= free |bibcode= 2022JHumE.16703182F }}</ref>
* Subgenus ''Trachelocele''
** ''[[Gazella atlantica]]'' - Pleistocene Africa
** ''[[Gazella tingitana]]'' - Pleistocene Africa
* Subgenus ''Deprezia''
** ''[[Gazella psolea]]'' - Pliocene Africa

==In culture==
===Symbolism===
The gazelle, like the antelope to which it is related, is the [[totem]] of many African families. Some examples include the [[Joof family]] of the [[Senegambia region]],<ref>[[Louis Diène Faye|Faye, Louis Diène]], ''Mort et naissance: le monde [[Serer people|Sereer]]'', Nouvelles Éditions africaines (1983), p. 74, {{ISBN|9782723608688}}</ref><ref name="Gastllu">{{Cite book|last=Gastellu|first=Jean-Marc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cc0xdPE35ngC|title=L'égalitarisme économique des Serer du Sénégal|date=1981|publisher=IRD Editions|isbn=978-2-7099-0591-6|language=fr|page=130}}</ref> the Bagananoa of [[Botswana]] in [[Southern Africa]] (said to be descended from the BaHurutshe),<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Chidester|first1=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RlHs4yC0eP0C&pg=PA341|title=African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography: An Annotated Bibliography|last2=Kwenda|first2=Chirevo|last3=Petty|first3=Robert|last4=Tobler|first4=Judy|last5=Wratten|first5=Darrel|date=1997-08-07|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-03225-7|language=en|page=341}}</ref> and the Eraraka (or Erarak) clan of [[Uganda]].<ref name="Rescoe">Roscoe, John, ''The Northern Bantu: An Account of Some Central African Tribes of the Uganda Protectorate'', The University Press (1915), p. 262</ref> As is common in many African societies, it is forbidden for the Joof or Eraraka to kill or touch the family totem.<ref name="Gastllu"/><ref name="Rescoe"/>

=== Poetry ===
One of the traditional themes of Arabic love poetry involves comparing the gazelle with the beloved, and linguists theorize ''[[ghazal]]'', the word for love poetry in Arabic, is related to the word for gazelle.<ref name=Gulrup15>{{cite book|title=Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World|first1=Gülru|last1=Necipoğlu|editor=Gülru Necipoğlu|edition=Illustrated|publisher=BRILL|year=1997|isbn=9789004108721|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s6MN2T9cXNEC&pg=PA15}}</ref> It is related that the [[Caliph]] [[Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan|Abd al-Malik]] (646–705) freed a gazelle that he had captured because of her resemblance to his beloved:
{{center|
O likeness of [[Layla and Majnun|Layla]], never fear!<br>
For I am your friend, today, O wild gazelle!<br>
Then I say, after freeing her from her fetters:<br>
You are free for the sake of Layla, for ever!<ref name=Gulrup15/>
}}

The theme is found in the ancient Hebrew [[Song of Songs]]. (8:14)
{{center|
Come away, my beloved,<br>
and be like a gazelle<br>
or like a young stag<br>
on the spice-laden mountains.
}}

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Grants Gazelle Gazella granti in Tanzania 2645 Nevit.jpg|[[Grant's gazelle]] (male)
File:Gazella dama mhorr 2.jpg|[[Dama Gazelle|Mhorr gazelle]]
File:Cuvier's Gazelle.jpg|[[Cuvier's gazelle]] (female)
File:Gazella thomsonii - Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, Orlando, Florida, USA - 20100916.jpg|[[Thomson's gazelle]] (male)
File:Gazella spekei (Speke's Gazelle).jpg|[[Speke's gazelle]] (female)
File:Group of Gazella subgutturosa.JPG|[[Goitered gazelle]] (females and young)
File:Chinkara.jpg|[[Chinkara]] (female)
File:Gazella-dorcas.jpg|[[Dorcas gazelle]] (female)
File:Gazella rufifrons AB.jpg|[[Red-fronted gazelle]]
File:Gazella gazella.jpg|[[Mountain gazelle]] (male)
File:GazellaSoemmerringiWolf.jpg|[[Soemmerring's gazelle]] (females)
File:Slender-horned gazelle (Cincinnati Zoo).jpg|[[Slender-horned gazelle]] (male)
File:Granada Alhambra gazelle Poterie 9019.JPG|Gazelles on one of the [[Alhambra vases|vases]] made for the [[Alhambra]] palace
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
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