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Tibetan Gazelle was running Gurudongmar lake region in Norh Sikkim, India

Tibetan Gazelle was running Gurudongmar lake region in Norh Sikkim, India. It is found in a group and eating grass In the cold desert steppe landscape of India's Trans-Himalayan region resides one of the rarest large mammals found in the country – the Tibetan Gazelle (Procapra picticaudata). The only wild member of the Antilopinae sub-family in the region, a small population of Tibetan Gazelles is spread across the Indian Changthang in southern and south-eastern Ladakh and the Gurudongmar-Tso Lhamo plateau in north Sikkim. This unforgiving landscape of the Changthang plateau expands from India's Ladakh into north-western Tibet (China). With steppe vegetation, high rolling mountains and extreme weather conditions, it is home to the Tibetan Gazelle.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2022
Date Uploaded: 11.2022
Photo Location: Gangtok, Sikkim, India, India
Camera: NIKON Z 9
Copyright: © Apurba Das