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	AllRefer.com - oryx (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		Oryxes are light in color with dark patches on the face and legs.
		The E African variety is smaller, with shorter horns, and is called the beisa.
		The Arabian oryxes once ranged over the deserts of SW Asia and were hunted by nomads for flesh and hides.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/oryx.html (329 words)

	The Scimitar-Horned Oryx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Scimitar-horned oryx is found in the desert to semidesert region of Africa known as the "Great Steppe." This area is a strip of arid grassland extending from Senegal to central Sudan, which borders the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
		The Scimitar-horned oryx is found in barren steppes of desert to semidesert environments.
		The Scimitar-horned oryx is average in size compared to the larger East African oryx or the smaller Arabian oryx.
	www.trianglemetrozoo.com /oryxjan06.asp (935 words)

	Arabian Oryx Project - Oryx Of The World
		Oryx belong to the Hippotragini, the family of horse-like antelopes.
		The size and appearance of the different forms of oryx is related to the aridity of their ranges.
		The oryx is renowned for its ability to survive in hot, dry areas without drinking water for months, if not years and the recorded patterns of distribution in the Sahara, the Kalahari desert, East Africa and in Arabia all confirm that drinking must be rare.
	www.oryxoman.com /genus.html (554 words)

	AWF: Wildlife: Oryx
		A defined pattern of fl markings that contrast with the white face and fawn-colored body are prominently displayed in dominance rituals to emphasize the length of horns and strength of the shoulder.
		The social system of the oryx is unusual in that nonterritorial males live in mixed groups with females, or with females and their young.
		The oryx is a good example of an antelope that has successfully adapted to the harsh conditions of dispersed food, intense heat and little or no water.
	www.awf.org /content/wildlife/detail/oryx (574 words)

	Animal Info - Scimitar-horned Oryx
		The scimitar-horned oryx inhabits the sub-desert lands - the transition zones between true desert (Sahara) and the Sahel, with a rainfall of between 75 and 150 mm (3 - 6").
		The scimitar-horned oryx is a gregarious, living in groups with a wide range of sizes.
		The scimitar-horned oryx was formerly distributed from Mauritania in the west to the Red Sea in the east, but it declined drastically, apparently to extinction in the wild.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/oryxdamm.htm (1519 words)

	oryx facts
		Oryx wanting to drink, for example, form a group to go to water, or females with young form a group that moves more slowly.
		Oryx range widely over a large area, but their keen sense of smell alerts them to rain in the area, so that groups quickly assemble, often in herds of 200 or more, to feed on new growth.
		Oryx typically feed in early morning and late afternoon and sometimes on moonlit nights.
	outtoafrica.nl /animals/engoryx.html?zenden=2&subsoort_id=4&... (800 words)

	East African Oryx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The East African Oryx (Oryx beisa, also known as the Beisa Oryx) found in steppe and semi-desert throughout the Horn of Africa and in parts of Tanzania.
		East African Oryx live in semi-desert and steppes where they eat grass, leaves, fruit and buds.
		East African Oryx are able to store water by raising their body temperature (so as to avoid perspiration).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_African_Oryx (229 words)

	oryx - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		oryx, name for several small, horselike antelopes, genus Oryx, found in deserts and arid scrublands of Africa and Arabia.
		Oryx Refutes UN Security Council Allegations, Considers Legal Challenge.
		Oryx Win in BBC Libel Case; BBC Defence Collapses.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-oryx.html (429 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Return of the Oryx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Its hooves, for example, are larger than those of the African Oryx — to give increased purchase in sand; its coat is whiter, to reflect heat; it can, in effect, survive on little more than dew or condensation for up to a year by licking it off leaves during the night.
		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.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198204/return.of.the.oryx.htm (3114 words)

	The EastAfrican on the Web
		It is possible that her association with the oryx calf is partly the result of a misplaced maternal instinct.
		Oryx can breed and calve at any time of the year, but pregnant oryx seek cover away from the herd to give birth, and conceal their young for up to six weeks.
		If the oryx in Samburu produce most of their calves at the same time of the year, then the supply of calves for Kamuniak to adopt will dry up, and that should be the end of the story.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/11032002/Features/Magazine8.html (2629 words)

	Beisa oryx, East African oryx
		The beisa oryx has a number of physiological adaptations which allow it to conserve water.
		The beisa oryx is classified as a low risk, conservation dependent species by the IUCN (1996).
		In African Mammals Databank - A Databank for the Conservation and Management of the African Mammals Vol 1 and 2.
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Oryx_beisa.html (451 words)

	Oryx - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		dpoE, a pickaxe, hence applied to the animal), the scientific name of a group of African antelopes of relatively large size with long straight or scimitar-shaped horns, which are present in both sexes, and long tufted tails.
		The true oryx of classical writers was probably the East and North-east African beisa-oryx (Oryx beisa), which is replaced in South Africa by the gemsbuck (oryx gazella).
		In Northern Africa the group is represented by the scimitar-horned 0.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Oryx (94 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)

	Natural History Collections: Ruminantia
		The incredible horns of all species of Oryx are distinctive amongst the bovids for their size and straightness.
		The scimitar-horned oryx is also at risk due to the grazing of cattle on the borders of the Sahara.desert.
		The horns of bovids are covered in keratin (the same material that hair and nails are made of) and neither the bone inside and the keratin are shed throughout life.
	www.nhc.ed.ac.uk /index.php?page=24.134.166.170.276.278 (1674 words)

	Comparative Placentation
		Of the South African Oryx gazella, Grubb (1993) recognized 11 or 12 subspecies, which includes the animal under discussion.
		A hybrid of fringe-eared oryx and a beisa oryx (Oryx gazella beisa) was reported by Gray (1972).
		No studies are known to me. It is important, however, to point out that most animals, including this oryx, produce enormous quantities of a very thick, tenacious mucus in the endocervical canal during pregnancy.
	medicine.ucsd.edu /cpa/oryx.html (1385 words)

	Tsavo East - Kenya - Safari In Kenya
		Commonly seen birds are African skimmers, goshawks, red and yellow bishops, palm nut vultures and the white-headed buffalo weavers.
		There are many interesting aspects in the open areas of Tsavo East not least the spine of the Yatta Plateau, one of the world's longest lava flows.
		This wilderness, seemingly so hostile, is nevertheless inhabited by a wide range of plains' game including zebra, several species of antelope among them lesser kudu and hartebeest, warthog and ostrich as well a elephant herds which plunder their way through bush and scrub to the permanent waters of the Athi River.
	www.africanmeccasafaris.com /kenya/safaris/parks/tsavoeast.asp (437 words)

	Desert \| PE.com \| Southern California News \| News for Inland Southern California
		A female Arabian oryx was born Jan. 11 at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert to Ahmad and Persephone.
		The Arabian oryx is sometimes called the unicorn of the desert because when the animal turns sideways, it appears to have one horn.
		An Arabian oryx calf, which has yet to be named, is one of five females in the exhibit at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens.
	www.pe.com /localnews/desert/stories/PE_News_Local_oryx05.ee4d.html (314 words)

	Richard Leakey's East Rudolf: Desolate Graveyard of Early Man
		In the exuberance and, some argue, in the inexperience of the East Rudolf expedition's early days, many fossils were haphazardly collected without adequate documentation of where they came from in the geological strata.
		Unless East Rudolf has preserved an extraordinary selection of aberrant types, Leakey has evidence that there were not just one or two hominid lineages in existence at a given time but three or four and perhaps more.
		East Rudolf must have been a region with sufficient ecological diversity to have allowed various types of closely related hominids to have arisen and thrive for hundreds of thousands of years.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001973/Rensberger/Rensberger10/Rensberger10.html (1536 words)

	Oryx Pictures
		"An Oryx is one of three or four large antelope species of the genus Oryx, typically having long straight nearly upright horns.
		The East African Oryx (Oryx beisa) can survive without water for long periods.
		The smallest species, the Arabian Oryx, is almost extinct, and another, the Scimitar Oryx of the Sahara is extinct in the wild.
	www.junglewalk.com /photos/Oryx-pictures-I2263.htm (98 words)

	Tsavo East National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tsavo National Park, encompassing Tsavo East and West, is the biggest National Park in Kenya occupying 21,000 square km.
		Specifically, Tsavo East National Park, located near the town of Voi, is the larger of the two parks.
		Despite Tsavo East National Park being large in size, two-thirds of the park had been closed to the public (but lately the warden has been allowing tourists through) because of heavy poaching over the years.
	kenya.com /TsavoEast.html (607 words)

	oryx. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		), name for several small, horselike antelopes, genus Oryx, found in deserts and arid scrublands of Africa and Arabia.
		They have slight shoulder humps, tufted tails, and straight or slightly curved slender horns that point backward.
		The oryx is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Bovidae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/or/oryx.html (288 words)

	Oryx - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Oryx, common name for three species of horned antelopes that live in Africa and the Middle East, of which the best known is the gemsbok.
		The common eland is classified as Taurotragus oryx,...
		- African antelope: an antelope that has long horns, bold fl and white markings on the face, and a hump above the shoulders.
	encarta.msn.com /Oryx.html (84 words)

	AWF: Wildlife: African Wild Dog
		The African wild dog, also called the hunting dog, is a vanishing species in East Africa.
		The African wild dog has a colorful, patchy coat, large bat-like ears and a bushy tail with a white tip that may serve as a flag to keep the pack in contact while hunting.
		African wild dogs live in packs of six to 20.
	www.awf.org /content/wildlife/detail/africanwilddog (584 words)

	Gulfnews: Oryx to roam the wild again
		Doha: Qatar is planning to reintroduce herds of Arabian oryx into the wild, decades after the animal became extinct in the wilds of the Arabian Peninsula.
		The Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) is a medium-sized white antelope with two gently curving horns.
		The Oryx is the symbol of Qatar and is used by most of the country's most recognisable companies such as Qatar Airways, the Qatar National Olympic Committee and the Doha Asian Games Organising Committee.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/06/10/14/10074608.html (485 words)

	Haller Park - Bamburi Nature Trail - Kenya - Mombasa Tours
		Cape Buffalos are African buffalos, and not water buffalos.
		Oryxs' are extremely adapted to life in dry, poor rainfall ar eas.
		The South African Crested Porcupines are active at night, and are rarely seen during the day.
	www.africanmeccasafaris.com /kenya/mombasa/excursions/naturetrail.asp (1430 words)

	Livestock and the Environment
		East African pastoralists are not locked into the destructive land and livestock relationships that many people assume.
		In the ASALs of East Africa, livestock and wildlife are the primary ‘mediators’ through which humans derive usable resources from an uncertain environment, one that is characterised by dramatic changes in productivity due to patchy rainfall and resource distribution.
		A case-study currently being undertaken by the African Wildlife Foundation is investigating the conditions under which wildlife management offers a competetive commercial rate of return compared with other land-use options, on private and communal lands.
	www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/LEAD/X6140E/X6140E00.HTM (4245 words)

	Ch17
		King (1975), for example, has shown that subjecting oryx to the same husbandry routine as is practiced for cattle in the same area adversely effects the advantages of this species.
		By confining oryx to a Kraal at night they are denied access to dew as a source of water, which is a mechanism for minimizing surface water requirements.
		Thus, an alternative to this simplistic approach is required which, on the one hand is socially and culturally acceptable and on the other maintains the ability of the oryx to thrive without surface water.
	www.fao.org /docrep/T0115E/T0115E0i.htm (3235 words)

	Other Safari
		The wildlife consists mainly of East African plains animals, but there are now giraffe Oryx, bateared fox, and caracal.
		East of the Omo River, and stretching south towards the Chew Bahir basin, lies the Mago National park, rich in wildlife with few human inhabitants.
		This is Ethiopia’s true tropical zone and here are found all the elements of the African safari, enhanced by a distinctly Ethiopian flavor.
	www.easterntravel.net /other_safari.htm (446 words)

	Kenya Lodge Safaris,Kenya Safaris, Air Tours Kenya, Masai Mara Air Safari,Kenya Air Safaris,Mombasa Beach ...
		East Africa budget camping safaris are most suitable for those who wish to experience the richness of game viewing and mountain trekking in Africa while sleeping in the open.
		For those travelers who would rather see Africa in comfort and luxury these more expensive options are available and while accommodation is either in upmarket lodges and luxury tented camps transport can either be in four by four custom built land cruisers, in comfortable safari minibuses or in chartered aircraft and hot air balloons.
		Some of the richest countries in the world with regard to excellent beach locations and tropical islands are to be found in East Africa.
	www.oryxsafaris.com (589 words)

	The Living Desert - Zoos & Wildlife Parks in Palm Springs pictures on Worldisround
		Other yards house predators - African wild dogs (their exhibit features a very neat feature in which you can walk down and be inside the exhibit, surrounded by glass panels), cheetahs, bat eared foxes, and aardwolves (small, insect-eating relatives of the hyena).
		In a small, very pleasant East African garden can be found a number of bird exhibits, which feature endangered Waldrapp ibises, cinereous vultures, and a number of mixed-species bird enclosures (one of these is home to a dik-dik, a kind of miniature antelope).
		The highlight exhibit of the African section is Village Wa Tu Tu.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/43186/text.html (942 words)

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