Grant's gazelle
| Grant's gazelle | |
|---|---|
| A male at the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Antilopinae |
| Tribe: | Antilopini |
| Genus: | Nanger |
| Species: | N. granti |
| Binomial name | |
| Nanger granti (Brooke, 1872) | |
| The distribution of Grant's gazelles | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gazella granti | |
Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti) 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 Scottish explorer, James Grant.