Talk:Gazelle

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[edit] Top Speed

"Gazelles are known as swift animals; they can reach speeds of up to 100 km/hour" this is obviously
incorrect as greyhounds are sited on wikipedia as reaching 45 mph (72 km/h) and are 

widely known to be the second fastest land animal (second only to cheetahs who can reach speeds of 110 km/h (70 mph)). Therefore i am removing this reference from the page untill a more acurate speed is found and it's source sited. Diploid 15:31 05 Feb 2005

However it is quite logical that the only thing faster than a gazelle is the predator that hunts them, cheetahs.

Shall I quote from encarta?: "Gazelles are fast on their feet and some species have been credited with top speeds of nearly 100 km/h (60 mph)." Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Whereas encarta mentions nothing of greyhounds being 2nd fastest.

Therefore you should really add that back in.

Sorry if quoting encarta constitutes plagarism but there it is, "source sited" (actually its spelled "cited").

Gotskills22 21:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

It is quite appropriate to quote from sources on the Talk page, but maybe better to reword and cite reference in Main articles—GRM 21:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thomson's Gazelle (spelling)

For the record, the animal pictured is the Thomson's gazelle, without a "p" in its name. I made the change in the photo caption. Funnyhat 19:13, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dik-diks?

What about the species of miniature Gazelles known as the Dik-Dik?

• Dik-diks are not considered as gazelles—GRM 21:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] arabic?

wwhy is this article in category:arabic words?

[edit] They eat what?

"They tend to live in herds and will eat less coarse, easily digestible plants and leaves and the occasional animal carcass."

I want a citation before I'll believe they are carnivorous. David Witchell (talk) 14:30, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Herbivores occasionally consume small amounts of animal matter (particularly bones); but I can't seem to verify this for the gazelles, so I took it out for the moment. The problem is that any search term that includes gazelle and carcass takes you to articles on gazelle predators! If someone can cite it it can go back in. Sabine's Sunbird talk 22:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)