The endless steppes of Mongolia are home to thousands of white gazelles. Biologists estimate that approximately one-third of the world’s white gazelles inhabit in Mongolia. Professor Kirk Olson, from university of Massachusetts- Amherst, witnessed a rare wonder in 2007, when he climbed a small hill in the vast steppe. Olson saw a herd of what he thought was a few thousand gazelles. He later told BBC: ”but it was really one edge of a group that ended up being over 250,000 by one estimate.” “We were simply amazed at the sight. The image I have in my mind of seeing this massive aggregation of gazelles will always be etched into my memory.

I expected that we would come across gazelles at times in large and impressive numbers, but not a couple hundred thousand in one sweep across the horizon. I had never seen that many before and that many had never been documented.” Mongolian gazelles are renowned for their huge herds. The average herd will have at least 300-500. Recently, an 80,000 head herd was registered. White gazelles make up the highest number of wild animals in Central Asia.