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The addax (Addax nasomaculatus), also known as the white antelope and the screwhorn antelope, is an antelope native to the Sahara Desert. The only member of the genus Addax, it was first described scientifically by Henri de Blainville in 1816. As suggested by its alternative name, the pale antelope has long, twisted horns – typically 55 to 80 ...
Some antelopes have been domesticated including the oryxes, addax, elands and the extinct bubal hartebeest. In Ancient Egypt oryxes, addaxes and bubal hartebeests are depicted in carved walls. [citation needed] The earliest evidence of cattle domestication is from 8000 BC, suggesting that the process began in Cyprus and the Euphrates basin. [70]
Oryx (/ ˈ ɒr ɪ k s / ORR-iks) is a genus consisting of four large antelope species called oryxes.Their pelage is pale with contrasting dark markings in the face and on the legs, and their long horns are almost straight.
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The Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve covers 77,360 square kilometres (29,870 sq mi), of which 12,800 square kilometres (4,900 sq mi) form the Aïr and Ténéré Addax Sanctuary. The Sanctuary exists to protect the critically endangered Addax , which once roamed much of the Aïr Mountains and Ténéré desert .
Henry Baker Tristram (1867) proposed that the pygarg was the Saharan antelope addax and described it as "a large animal, over 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet [1 m] high at the shoulder, and, with its gently-twisted horns, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet [80 cm] feet long. Its colour is pure white, with the exception of a short black mane, and a tinge of tawny on the ...
Two species, the scimitar-horned oryx and Père David's deer, are extinct in the wild. 14 species are considered critically endangered, including the addax, the kouprey, the wild Bactrian camel, Przewalski's gazelle, the saiga, and the pygmy hog. 24 species are considered endangered.