Grant's gazelle is a relatively large species of gazelle antelope, distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Its Swahili name is swala granti. It was named for a 19th-century British explorer, James Grant.
Grant's gazelle
Grant's gazelle
A skull of male exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
Grant's gazelles in green grassland
A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus Gazella. 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.
Gazelle
Byzantine-era mosaic of gazelle in Caesarea, Israel
Grant's gazelle (male)
Mhorr gazelle