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title: "Mountain Gazelle"
description: "Gazella gazella — Mammiferi. The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella), also called the true gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle, is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/mountain-gazelle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mountain Gazelle

> Gazella gazella — Mammiferi. The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella), also called the true gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle, is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed.

- Scientific name: *Gazella gazella*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammiferi)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1411
- Wikidata: [Q754520](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q754520)
- iNaturalist taxon: [74352](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/74352)

## Names

- en: Mountain Gazelle
- de: Echte Gazelle
- es: Gacela Idmi
- fr: Gazelle de montagne
- nl: Berggazelle

## Countries with the most observations

IL (1034), PS (145), TR (11)

## Summary

The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella), also called the true gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle, is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed.
Approximately 6,000 are left in the wild as of 2024. The mountain gazelle is protected under Israeli law, with Israel being the last major sanctuary of the species in the Levant.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_gazelle

## Photo

![Mountain Gazelle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mountain-gazelle/medium.jpg)

Photo: shachar8 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/382191348

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mountain-gazelle?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).