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Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia..
Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.
Use saiga when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Saiga means Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia..
Common synonyms include steppe saiga, saiga antelope, saiga tatarica.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.
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