Fun Facts

 

• During mating season the males become so preoccupied with maintaining their harem and fending off other males that they forgot eat. This leads to an 80-90% mortality rate for males each year
  
  
• In 1992 the Saiga was represented on a stamp in Kazahstan

 

•  Male Saiga have somewhat translucent amber colored horns that are valued in China for medicinal purposes

• Saiga tatarica travel in groups of 30-40 normally, but during migration periods they travel in groups closer to numbers in the thousands

 

Image was taken from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Kazakhstan_009.jpg

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