enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Scimitar oryx - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scimitar_oryx

    The scimitar oryx is a straight-horned antelope that stands just over 1 m (3.3 ft) at the shoulder. The males weigh 140–210 kg (310–460 lb) and the females 91–140 kg (201–309 lb). [ 10 ] The body measures 140–240 cm (55–94 in) from the head to the base of the tail.

  3. Fossil Rim Wildlife Center - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Rim_Wildlife_Center

    Fossil Rim Wildlife Center participates in the reproduction and rehabilitation program of the scimitar-horned Oryx in Chad and the rest of sub-saharan Africa. The species was extinct in the wild from the 1980s until late 2023, when it was upgraded to critically endangered. Poaching, loss of habitat and political strife were some of the causes ...

  4. Oryx - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx

    The scimitar oryx, also called the scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), of North Africa used to be listed as extinct in the wild, but it is now declared as endangered. Unconfirmed surviving populations have been reported in central Niger and Chad , and a semi-wild population currently inhabiting a fenced nature reserve in Tunisia is being ...

  5. Horned creature vanished from African wild for years. Then ...

    www.aol.com/news/horned-creature-vanished...

    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

  6. Bamberger Ranch Preserve - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamberger_Ranch_Preserve

    The ranch also works to promulgate endangered species. It has a herd of scimitar-horned oryx (native to Africa), and Bamberger also markets the Texas snowbell tree to other ranchers. [ 3 ]

  7. Orana Wildlife Park - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orana_Wildlife_Park

    Two pairs of rare Scimitar-horned oryx were transferred in 1979. Oryx symbolise what the Park's founders hoped for when Orana was formed. Oryx were declared extinct in the wild in 1984 but captive breeding programmes resulted in the species being re-established in protected areas.

  8. List of mammals that perform mass migrations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_that...

    Blue wildebeest on migration in Kenya, 2017. Mass migrations take place, or used to take place, by the following mammals: [1]. Africa: Hartebeest; Springbok; Black wildebeest; Blue wildebeest

  9. Tibesti–Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibesti–Jebel_Uweinat...

    One, the scimitar-horned oryx Oryx dammah is now believed to be extinct in the wild, while the addax Addax nasomaculatus is critically endangered. Other species include dorcas gazelle Gazella dorcas which is assessed as vulnerable, dama gazelle Nanger dama which is endangered, Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia which is vulnerable and cheetah ...