I just think it would be very, very sad if the saiga became extinct and I never got to take my very own photograph of one (on the off chance that I ever visit Mongolia. All the coolest animals seem to live in Mongolia).
I originally found a picture of one in a BBC Planet Earth book at the college library on Wednesday. I'm going to go back and check out the book, I think. It had the "...they dare not linger..." line in it.
If this photo doesn't convince you that this is a cool animal, they say it's related to sheep (and antelope), it can run 80mph and it grows a mane on the underside of it's neck.
It sounds mostly like a sheep.
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Are you sure that wasn't just an animal Lucas dreamed up for Star Wars? I bet it has a soft nose!
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