Saiga
Also known as Saiga tatarica, Colus, Saiga antelope
species of mammal
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A saiga is a stocky, medium-sized antelope with a distinctive elongated nose, found in the grasslands and deserts of Central Asia. This species matters because its populations have experienced dramatic declines due to poaching and habitat loss, making it an important focus for conservation efforts.
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Species
Saiga
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderArtiodactyla
- FamilyBovidae
高鼻羚羊（學名：Saiga tatarica）又名高鼻羚、塞加羚羊（塞加羚）或大鼻羚羊（大鼻羚）。是牛科高鼻羚羊属下唯一的物種，和同樣瀕臨絕種的藏羚是近親。現存野生數量稀少，且可能持續下降中。已知最古老的高鼻羚羊化石發現自更新世地層，外型與現在並沒有太大的差異，間接顯示這種動物可能也是第四紀冰河時期事件後倖存下來的生物之一。
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The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica, /ˈsaɪɡə/) 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. t. tatarica) only occurs in Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast of Russia and in the Ural Mountains, Ustyurt Plateau and Betpak-Dala regions of Kazakhstan. A portion of the Ustyurt population migrates south to Uzbekistan and occasionally to Turkmenistan in winter. It is regionally extinct in Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, China and southwestern Mongolia. The Mongolian subspecies (S. t. mongolica) occurs only in western Mongolia.
Taxonomy and phylogeny