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The 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.
Bovids range in size from the 38 cm (15 in) long royal antelope to the 3.3 m (11 ft) long gaur, which can reach 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) in weight. [1] Over a billion each of domesticated sheep , cattle , and goats , and over 200 million domesticated water buffalo , 14 million domestic yak , and 300,000 domesticated gayal are used in farming worldwide.
The saiga (tribe Saigini) inhabits Central and Western Asia, mostly in regions from the Tibetan Plateau and north of the Indian Subcontinent. The dwarf antelope species of tribe Neotragini live entirely in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Mongolian saiga (Saiga tatarica mongolica) is a subspecies of saiga antelope endemic to Mongolia. [1] It was originally described as a full species, but later the initial author moved it to its current taxonomic position. [1] It has also been considered a subspecies of Saiga borealis, but that has been shown to be incorrect. [1]
Saiga was traditionally classified as a member of the tribe Saigini, within the subfamily Caprinae [1] [3] but some authors suggested that the genus Saiga was closer to the subfamily Antilopinae. [ 4 ] In 2000 Groves analyzed the morphological characters of Procapra , Prodorcas and Saiga , and proposed three basal groups of Antilopinae, one of ...
Reintroduction is also planned for yak, Bactrian camels, snow sheep, Saiga antelope, and Siberian tigers. The wood bison, the closest relative of the ancient bison which became extinct in Siberia 1,000 to 2,000 years ago, is an important species for the ecology of Siberia. In 2006, 30 bison calves were flown from Edmonton, Alberta to Yakutsk ...
The goat-antelope, or caprid, group is known from as early as the Miocene, when members of the group resembled the modern serow in their general body form. [5] The group did not reach its greatest diversity until the recent ice ages , when many of its members became specialised for marginal, often extreme, environments: mountains, deserts, and ...
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Concerning Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the Saiga Antelope is a Multilateral Environmental Memorandum of Understanding and came into effect on 24 September 2006 under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), also known as the Bonn Convention.