The road is to start in the baking plains of the east, home to thundering herds of Mongolian gazelles.

The Mongolian Gazelle is numerous here.

Although snow leopards don't reside at this zoo, families will learn about the efforts to preserve them and another endangered species, the Mongolian gazelle.

Mongolian gazelles were hunted for their meat, and red deer, for their antler velvet.

Jingning has a variety of diverse wildlife; tigers, bears, jackals, deer and Mongolian gazelle all inhabit the county.

Zeren (Mongolian Gazelle)

Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa)

Mongolian gazelles (Procapra gutturosa) comprised about 15% of the remains found at a nest in Mongolia (sample size of 78).

In 2007, a mega-herd of a quarter of a million Mongolian gazelles was seen gathering on the country's steppes, one of the world's last great wildernesses.

The line has 180 bridges and 1,000 tunnels and underpasses, including passage ways for Mongolian gazelle in the 300-km of wilderness from Wuliji to Ejin.

The Mongolian gazelle is still one of the most numerous large animals in the world, with the total population at about 1.5 million individuals, but approximately 100,000 are killed each year.

In Outer Mongolia, a herd of Mongolian gazelle flee a bush fire and has to move on to new grazing, but grass can repair itself rapidly and soon reappears.

The main mineral resources are lead, zinc, barite, coal, gypsum, etc. and the main wildlife includes deer, black-necked cranes, chickens, gray duck, pheasant, Mongolian gazelle etc.

Closely related to the true gazelles are the Tibetan and Mongolian gazelles (species of the genus Procapra), the Blackbuck of Asia, and the African Springbok.

Przewalski's gazelle is similar in appearance to both the Tibetan gazelle and the Mongolian gazelle, to both of which it is closely related, and occurs in similar geographic areas.

Mongolian Gazelle (Procapra gutturosa)

Mongolian gazelles (Procapra gutturosa) comprised about 15% of the remains found at a nest in Mongolia (sample size of 78).