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Bookmark or Share- Saiga | Antelope, Description, Habitat, & Facts | Britannicasaiga, (Saiga tatarica), medium-sized hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla) that lives in herds in treeless steppe country. Once common from Poland to western Mongolia, it has been greatly reduced by hunting and habitat destruction and now exists in locations in southwestern Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.
- Saiga: the world's weirdest antelopes - Fauna & Flora International600 miles. Saiga can migrate over distances of up to 1,000 kilometres between summer and winter. Saiga calf. © Bakhtiyar Taikenov / ACBK. Double bonus. A female saiga usually give birth to twins. Unfussy eaters. Saiga can eat plants that are poisonous to other animals. Distant cousins.
- Critically endangered antelope saiga makes comeback - BBC News4 July 2021. Getty Images. The saiga is known for its bulbous, protruding nose. By Helen Briggs. BBC Environment correspondent. The population of a rare type of antelope has more than doubled...
- Critically endangered antelope saiga makes comeback - BBCThe International Union for Conservation of Nature classes the saiga among five critically endangered antelope species. Numbers of the species, which goes by the scientific name Saiga tatarica,...
- Saiga antelope - WikipediaThe saiga antelope (/ ˈ s aɪ ɡ ə /, Saiga tatarica), 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.
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