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	Animal Info - Arabian Oryx
		The Arabian oryx lives in nomadic herds that follow the rare rains, and it is able to utilize effectively the fresh plant growth that occurs after a rainfall.
		The Arabian oryx is believed to have occurred in flat and undulating gravel plains intersected by shallow wadis and depressions, and the dunes edging sand deserts, with a diverse vegetation of trees, shrubs, herbs, and grasses.
		Genetic analyses of the re-introduced Omani population of Arabian oryx in 1995 confirmed that the re-introduced population did not carry all of the genetic variation of the aboriginal population.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/oryxleuc.htm (1446 words)

	Arabian oryx
		Fromerly barren steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts of the Arabian peninsula.
		The Arabian oryx is classified as endangered by the IUCN (1996).
		Today, over 100 Arabian oryx have been returned to the wild in Oman and Jordan, while the captive population is over 600 animals.
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Oryx_leucoryx.html (420 words)

	Al Shindagah
		The Arabian oryx, with its curved, long and beautiful horns, is probably responsible for the fable of the unicorn.
		Of all the oryx species, gemsbok in the Kalahari desert, scimitar-horned oryx in the Sahara and the Beisa of the East African Somali desert, none equals the Arabian oryx as a desert specialist.
		Moreover, as oryx are visible to the naked eye at three kilometres in sunlight, the white coat may have evolved partially as a flag to assist herd location in an open environment where merging with the environment is less necessary.
	www.alshindagah.com /january99/arabianwildlife.htm (1943 words)

	Oryx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Oryx is one of three or four large antelope species of the genus Oryx, typically having long straight almost upright horns.
		The Arabian oryx, the smallest species became extinct in the wild in 1972 from the Arabian Peninsula.
		The Oryx, when seen from the side, appears to have only one single horn which leads to speculations that it is probably the animal initially mistaken for Unicorn myths.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oryx (347 words)

	BCEAW - Ungulates
		The oryx meet virtually all their water requirements by eating plants with high water content and by feeding at that time of the day when water from fog and dew is at its maximum.
		The oryx is perhaps one of the most well adapted desert dwellers, feeding by night during the hot summer months and fleeing under shady plants during the heat of the day.
		The Arabian tahr is endemic to the mountains of the UAE and northern Oman.
	www.breedingcentresharjah.com /Ungulates.htm (2082 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : An Oryx Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In an international conservation effort, a herd of 10 zoo-bred oryx were released in 1982 onto the Jiddat al-Harasis, a remote desert plain in central Oman where - a decade earlier - hunters had slaughtered the world's last wild-ranging Arabian oryx.
		The released oryx, however, have shown themselves well able to adapt to desert conditions, and, although born and reared in zoos, have proved that they retain the natural instincts important for their survival in the wild.
		While that prospect is not yet assured, support for the oryx project is as firm as ever, in particular from Sultan Qaboos and from the Harasis rangers, who see the animals as living symbols of their own heritage.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198905/an.oryx.update.htm (1262 words)

	Gale Schools - Environment - Endangered Species - Arabian Oryx
		Oryx habitat has been described as a flat plain of gravel and stone that fringes the sand desert of the Arabian Peninsula.
		The Arabian oryx was once wide-ranging throughout the Levant, Arabia, and Iraq, but by 1972 the last specimen had been taken from the wild.
		The Arabian oryx is also held in several zoos in Saudi Arabia and the United States.
	www.galeschools.com /environment/endangered/arabian_oryx.htm (529 words)

	UNEP-WCMC - Arabian Oryx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oryx within the Yalooni area are in competition with increasingly large herds of domestic livestock.
		Three wild Arabian Oryx were captured in Oman in 1962 and transported to Phoenix Zoo in Arizona.
		In 1974 the White Oryx Project was launched bythe Sultan of Oman, with the aim of re-establishing a wild population.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /species/data/species_sheets/oryx.htm (767 words)

	The Arabian Oryx
		The oryx has an unusual ability to interpret signals given by rain carried on the wind: this is particularly important for its survival in the desert.
		The adult male oryx is usually territorial and rarely travels with the herds, that on average comprise 5 animals, usually females and their calves.
		The female oryx may give birth to its first calf, weighing 3-5 kgs, in the 22nd month of her life and thereafter she can give birthevery year, as the gestation period is 8.5 months.
	www.omanet.om /english/tourism/wildlife/oryx.asp?cat=tour&subcat=wild (567 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		FAUNA The fauna of the region is typical of the Arabian peninsula.
		The last wild oryx were captured and killed on the Jidda' in 1972 and wildlife was greatly reduced throughout the region.
		The oryx is now fully protected and the protection provided by the oryx project has enabled the ibex and the houbara bustard to increase.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/oryx_san.html (2139 words)

	The Living Desert - Arabian Oryx
		Arabian oryx are the smallest oryx, measuring four feet high at the shoulder.
		Arabian oryx's former habitat was the stony, sandy desert regions of the Arabian and Sinai Peninsula, Jordan, Syria and Iraq.
		The Arabian oryx live together peacefully in a linear dominant group, with all other animals deferring to a dominant bull.
	www.livingdesert.org /animals/arabian_oryx.asp (409 words)

	AlShindagah Online
		The Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) is a large antelope that crossed over to the Arabian Peninsula from Africa at the time when the two landmasses were still connected.
		The Arabian Oryx, locally called “al maha” or “lbaqr al wahsh”, is large in size, reaching 1.50 m at the shoulder.
		The Oryx prefers to live on the gravel plains and wadi outflows (ramlat) at the edge of the sand dunes, where there are plenty of shade trees.
	www.alshindagah.com /septoct2005/oryx.html (1461 words)

	San Diego Zoo Videos
		A 10-day-old male calf is the 282th Arabian oryx born at the Wild Animal Park since this species first arrived at the 1,800-acre (728-hectare) facility in 1972.
		The Park was one of the conservation organizations involved in the 1982 release of Arabian oryx in Oman.
		The oryx calf and the rest of the 15-member herd can be seen in their 5-acre (2-hectare) enclosure when riding the Park's Wgasa Bush Line Railway.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /videos/oryxbaby1-03.html (249 words)

	::Wildlife::
		The last wild Arabian oryx was probably killed in 1972, and its death became a symbol of human destruction of the natural world.
		The restoration of the Arabian oryx in Saudi Arabia is a core programme ot the NCWCD.
		Concurrent projects for the protection of large areas within the former range of the Arabian oryx, and the captive breeding of oryx at the NWRC have together enabled the restoration of the species in Saudi Arabia.
	www.ncwcd.gov.sa /English/reintroudction.htm (965 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Oryx
		Conservation status: scimitar-horned oryx Oryx dammah is believed to be extinct in the wild; Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx is endangered.
		A second breeding group of three oryx, from a zoo in Saudi Arabia, was started at the Los Angeles Zoo, and in the 1970s animals from both of these herds were sent to the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park.
		Gemsbok have two closely related oryx: the beisa oryx Oryx gazella beisa is found in the large arid areas of Somalia and eastern Africa; the closely related fringe-eared oryx Oryx gazella callotis is found in Kenya.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-oryx.html (1043 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Arabian oryx (pictured) is a medium-sized, white antelope, with fl patches on its face, and dark legs.
		A side view of the oryx, when seen from a distance, would seem to strengthen this image of legend, as the two, finely carved horns may then seem to merge into one.
		Oryx meat was particularly prized, as it was believed to possess medicinal properties.
	www.arab.net /saudi/sa_oryx.htm (719 words)

	[Oman-L] Oryx-Farm
		Nine oryx were sent to Phoenix Park in Arizona, which has a similar climate to the Jiddat al-Harasis, and a breeding programme was started to reintroduce sufficient numbers of the oryx to the wild.
		The oryx had to be taught where to find their food and initially were given straw until they were confident enough to fend for themselves which usually occurred after downpours of rain, when food becomes more abundant.
		Observation of the oryx was carried out by a team of guards who tracked the beasts for up to 10km and collated information on their habits and haunts. The Arabian Oryx is a creature well suited to the arid conditions of the desert.
	www.oman.org /pipermail/oman-l/2002-May/001449.html (1346 words)

	The Phoenix Zoo: Learn: Animals: Arabian Oryx
		Oryx are found in herds of up to 15 individuals, which center on an adult bull, several adult cows and their offspring.
		Arabian Oryx tend to maintain visual contact with other herd members, subordinate males taking positions between the main body of the herd and outlying females.
		By 1990, the number of Arabian Oryx had increased to over 1300 including 112 captive bred ones which were reintroduced back to the wild in preserves in their native lands.
	www.phoenixzoo.org /learn/animals/animal_detail.aspx?FACT_SHEET_ID=100003 (494 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Return of the Oryx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		To desert hunters, the oryx has always been a prize, but the oryx, which can for months live in totally waterless terrain, was an elusive quarry and, despite the hunters, managed to survive.
		To him - and the oryx - this is woodland and its existence on the "Jiddah" (the plain) is the reason that the area once teemed with wildlife: the Arabian Gazelle (Gazella arabica), the goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturose) and such other creatures as wolves, hyenas, lynx, foxes, reptiles, lizards, and birds.
		Success with the oryx has also been reported at the al-'Ain zoo in the United Arab Emirates, where, in 1969, Shaikh Zayed, president of the United Arab Emirates, presented three wild Arabian oryx confiscated from a hunter; the herd now counts 22 animals.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198204/return.of.the.oryx.htm (3114 words)

	ARABIAN ORYX
		The first step in obtaining oryx for captive breeding was greatly assisted by the far-sighted action of the late King Khalid who, in the late 1970's, established a herd of oryx at his farm at Thumamah.
		Six oryx were sent by the Royal Commission for the Conservation of Nature in Jordan, from their stock at Shaumari, and an additional nine oryx were flown in from the Zoological Society of San Diego in the USA.
		Additional oryx from Qatar, Bahrain and Taif have been introduced to Mahazat As Said since that first historic release, and the number of oryx in the Reserve at the time of writing is one hundred, of which seventy were born there, in the wild.
	www.arabianwildlife.com /archive/vol1.1/oryx.html (894 words)

	WWF - Arabian oryx: preventing a second extinction
		Daly was speaking at the recent International Arabian Oryx Conference in Abu Dhabi, held under the sponsorship of the Ruler of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan.
		The Arabian Oryx finally became extinct in 1972, when the last wild animal was killed in Oman, probably by poachers.
		Arabian Oryx have also been reintroduced in the Uruq Bani Ma-Arid protected area in Saudi Arabia, and reintroduction is being considered for Jordan and the western region of Abu Dhabi
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/what_we_do/species/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=1938 (734 words)

	Arabian Oryx Sanctuary - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary is an area within the Central Desert and Coastal Hills biogeographical regions of Oman.
		Its rare fauna includes the first free-ranging herd of Arabian oryx since the global extinction of the species in the wild in 1972 and its reintroduction here in 1982.
		“Jaaluni is the field station of the Arabian Oryx Project located on the flat desert plain of the Jiddat al Harasis.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/arabianoryxsanctuary.html (453 words)

	isis
		In 1964, the Phoenix Zoo had the last seven wild-caught Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) – this is all that remained in the world.
		Today, information in the ISIS system is used to monitor a population of 1,500 Arabian oryx living in zoos and wildlife preserves worldwide.
		Endangered populations, like the Arabian oryx, require continual monitoring of births, deaths and transfers to ensure genetic diversity of fragile populations.
	www.isis.org /cmsHome/Content/eubison.htm (158 words)

	Arabian Oryx by Joey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Arabian Oryxes aren't normally active during the day but this one was angry during the time because the coyote was going to eat her baby.
		And the poacher saw the dad oryx and shot him in the ribs while the coyote ran towards the baby but the mom and baby ran and got away.
		The coyote got away and he saw a hollow that was dug by the mom oryx with her hooves and horns.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/5thgrade/joey.htm (336 words)

	Oman Wildlife
		Not long ago, Jiddat Al Harassis in the wilayat of Haima which was home to the majestic Arabian oryx bore the brunt of insensible acts that led to the disappearance of the gracious animal.
		The oryx project launched with a handful of animals in the protected Yaloony area today has exceeded all expectations, underscoring the favourable conditions prevalent in the Sultanate for a variety of wildlife.
		The Arabian oryx and gazelles roam in the wild at Jiddat Al Harassis.
	www.nizwa.net /env/wildlife/wild.html (1020 words)

	CNN - Wild Arabian oryx faces extinction - April 22, 1999
		The Arabian oryx, a white antelope that resides on the Arabian Peninsula and is responsible for the unicorn myth, could become extinct in the wild in Oman for the second time in 30 years, the World Wide Fund for Nature announced April 16.
		Between October 1996 and March 1999, the numbers of Arabian oryx in the wild in Oman fell from 400 to 100.
		The oryx breeds well in captivity and with careful management there is a healthy source of animals for further reintroduction programs.
	www.cnn.com /NATURE/9904/22/oryx.enn/index.html (530 words)

	Reproductive Patterns of the Arabian Oryx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The age at which female Arabian Oryx may produce their first calf has been quoted at 2.5 to 3.5 years by H. Jungius.
		It can be easily seen that two Oryx, Hind and Sameera, were both mated at the age of 17 months and produced their first calves at 25 months of age.
		This shows the distribution of births of Arabian Oryx at the Zoo throughout the year, and three main peaks are apparent; firstly January, then March to June, and lastly August.
	www.enhg.org /bulletin/b12/12_02.htm (325 words)

	Oryx Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		The Oryx (also called the sabre antelope) is a fast-running hoofed mammal that lives in dry regions of Africa and Asia (including the Arabian peninsula).
		Many types of oryxes (including the Arabian oryx and the scimitar-horned oryx) are endangered species, mostly because of overhunting and disease.
		Oryx are ruminants; they swallow their food without chewing it.
	www.zoomschool.com /subjects/mammals/oryx/Oryx.shtml (276 words)

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