Friday Pudublogging: the Dammit Gazelle

This week’s beautiful pudu-like beastie comes from the below-cited Scientific American list of creatures which will probably soon become extinct in the wild:

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This is what pudus call the Dammit Gazelle, which only fifty years ago could be seen in large numbers from Morocco to Sudan. Now there are only a few hundred left, in scattered groupings around Mali, Niger, and Chad.

More properly known as the Dama Gazelle, this fellow is suffering from climate change-induced loss of habitat, loss of food from overgrazing by human-controlled livestock, and motorized machine-gun hunting.

Dammit.