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The gemsbok (Oryx gazella), or South African oryx, is a large antelope in the genus Oryx. It is endemic to the dry and barren regions of Botswana , Namibia , South Africa and (parts of) Zimbabwe , mainly inhabiting the Kalahari and Namib Deserts , areas in which it is supremely adapted for survival.
The oryx is the national animal of Namibia, the State of Qatar, and the company Qatar Airways has an oryx as its logo. [16] [17] The main boss of the MMO game Realm of the Mad God is Oryx the Mad God, named after the creator of the original sprite sheets, Oryx. His four direct subordinates also bear the names of four South African species of oryx.
Its scientific name, Oryx dammah, is derived from: Ancient Greek ὄρυξ (orux), meaning a gazelle or antelope (originally a pickaxe [4]); Latin damma (fallow deer or antelope); and Arabic dammar (sheep). [5] The scimitar oryx is named for its horns, [6] which resemble scimitars. [5] Its common name in English is "scimitar-horned oryx", or ...
O. gazella may refer to: Onthophagus gazella, the gazella scarab, a beetle species; Oryx gazella, the gemsbok or gemsbuck, a large African antelope species; See also
Other species occur in Asia: the Arabian Peninsula is home to the Arabian oryx and Dorcas gazelle. South Asia is home to the nilgai, chinkara, blackbuck, Tibetan antelope, and four-horned antelope, while Russia and Central Asia have the Tibetan antelope and saiga. Blue duiker (Philantomba monticola) skeleton on display at the Museum of Osteology
The East African oryx (Oryx beisa), also known as the beisa, [4] is a species of medium-sized antelope from East Africa.It has two subspecies: the common beisa oryx (Oryx beisa beisa) found in steppe and semidesert throughout the Horn of Africa and north of the Tana River, and the fringe-eared oryx (Oryx beisa callotis) south of the Tana River in southern Kenya and parts of Tanzania.
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One species, the scimitar oryx, was once extinct in the wild, though populations are now recovering. The bluebuck went extinct in the last 200 years, and the aurochs went extinct 400 years ago. A third extinct species, the red gazelle , potentially never existed, [ 2 ] and the kouprey is potentially extinct, with no sightings since 1969.