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She has brown stockings with a white underside, and beige boots with brown tips. Like other Friends with horns, she has a strange spear with a rhim gazelle's horns as the pointed tips. | She has brown stockings with a white underside, and beige boots with brown tips. Like other Friends with horns, she has a strange spear with a rhim gazelle's horns as the pointed tips. | ||
Like all Friends, she has traits of the animal species she once belonged to. This manifests in her case as a rhim gazelle's tail and ears. | Like all Friends, she has traits of the animal species she once belonged to. This manifests in her case as a rhim gazelle's tail and ears. | ||
|reallife=Typically, their body length is between 100 to 110 cm and they weight roughly 20 to 30 kg by adulthood. This is the palest of the gazelles, and well adapted to desert life in many ways. The upper parts are pale buff or cream and the limbs and under parts white or pale buff. This helps to reflect the harsh rays of the desert sun. They also have a faint flank stripe and faint markings on the face. The Rhim gazelle also has reddish stripes that run from the eyes to the nose. The horns on the male are slender and slightly S-shaped; those of the female are even thinner, lighter and nearly straight. There are faint facial markings and an indistinct stripe along the side. The tail is brownish-black, about 15 cm long, and contrasts with the pale rump. | |reallife=[[File:Slender-horned gazelle (Cincinnati Zoo).jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|A rhim gazelle at the Cincinnati Zoo, the US. Photo by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slender-horned_gazelle_(Cincinnati_Zoo).jpg FisherQueen], 2007.]] | ||
Typically, their body length is between 100 to 110 cm and they weight roughly 20 to 30 kg by adulthood. This is the palest of the gazelles, and well adapted to desert life in many ways. The upper parts are pale buff or cream and the limbs and under parts white or pale buff. This helps to reflect the harsh rays of the desert sun. They also have a faint flank stripe and faint markings on the face. The Rhim gazelle also has reddish stripes that run from the eyes to the nose. The horns on the male are slender and slightly S-shaped; those of the female are even thinner, lighter and nearly straight. There are faint facial markings and an indistinct stripe along the side. The tail is brownish-black, about 15 cm long, and contrasts with the pale rump. | |||
The rhim gazelle is known from Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. It has also been reported from Niger and Chad, but these sightings seem doubtful and its precise range is unclear. The rhim gazelle is found in isolated pockets across the central Sahara Desert. The extreme heat of this environment limits their feeding to the early morning and evening, and gains most of its water requirements from dew and plant moisture, relying little on open water sources. The rhim gazelle is a nomadic species, moving across its desert range in search of vegetation, though it does not have a set migratory pattern. Its typical habitat is sand dunes and the depressions between them and other sandy areas, but also rocky areas. | The rhim gazelle is known from Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. It has also been reported from Niger and Chad, but these sightings seem doubtful and its precise range is unclear. The rhim gazelle is found in isolated pockets across the central Sahara Desert. The extreme heat of this environment limits their feeding to the early morning and evening, and gains most of its water requirements from dew and plant moisture, relying little on open water sources. The rhim gazelle is a nomadic species, moving across its desert range in search of vegetation, though it does not have a set migratory pattern. Its typical habitat is sand dunes and the depressions between them and other sandy areas, but also rocky areas. | ||