Threats
The population of this gazelle has declined throughout its range. Their natural predators include humans, cheetahs, leopards, Arabian wolves and lions. Due to human hunting, few large cats remain to prey on Dorcas gazelles. Mostly unhealthy gazelles are caught successfully by predators, since the healthy gazelles escape tend to escape their predators. To escape the cheetah, the fastest of carnivores, they run extremely fast and make zigs-zags, as does the Thomson's gazelle. The serval and caracal also prey on this species. The biggest modern threat to this gazelle is ever-expanding human civilization, which shrinks the gazelle's habitat by converting it to farmland for growing crops, and by introducing new flocks of domestic sheep and goats which compete with gazelles for grassland.
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