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  Oryx - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Oryx, antelope genus of Africa and the Middle East.
The common eland is classified as Taurotragus oryx, the Derby eland as...
The desert oryx and gazelle, as well as other wildlife previously hunted almost to extinction, have been preserved through recent conservation...
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 oryx stock images / stock images of oryx photos search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Oryx (gemsbok) skeleton lying at the foot of a sand dune.
Oryx (gemsbok) on an arid desert plain in the Namib desert.
A herd of oryx amongst rocks with Euphorbia bushes scattered in the backgrou...
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 Common Eland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Common Eland, or Southern Eland, (Taurotragus oryx) is a savannah and plain antelope found in East and Southern Africa.
Common Eland are sometimes considered part of the genus Tragelaphus but it is usually categorised as Taurotragus with the Giant Eland.
The name "eland" is derived form the Dutch word for elk (or moose).
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 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,...
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 Interstitial cell (Leydig) tumor in an eland (Taurotragus oryx) -- Nyska et al. 30 (2): 291 -- Journal of Wildlife ...
Interstitial cell (Leydig) tumor in an eland (Taurotragus oryx) -- Nyska et al.
We observed an interstitial cell tumor in an 18-mo-old captive eland bull (Taurotragus oryx) in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The histological description of the tumor in the eland was similar to that described in cattle; however, the appearance of a moderate amount of lipid vacuoles in the cytoplasm of the neoplastic cells was uncharacteristic for bovine interstitial cell tumors.
www.jwildlifedis.org /cgi/content/abstract/30/2/291   (112 words)

  
 Locking Horns with the Greater Kudu
Sequence A is that of a zoo kudu that died of TSE (as is the oryx sequence).
Arabian oryx 257 aa;771bp Artiodactyla; Ruminantia; Pecora; Bovoidea; Bovidae; Bovinae; Oryx.
Spongiform encephalopathy in an arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and a greater kudu
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 oryx
Oryxes are light in color with dark patches on the face and legs.
The Arabian oryxes once ranged over the deserts of SW Asia and were hunted by nomads for flesh and hides.
eland - eland, large, spiral-horned African antelope, genus Taurotragus, found in brush country or open...
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 porqupine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The eland, Taurotragus oryx, is the largest antelope found in Africa and is one of the few indigenous large mammals that have been successfully domesticated.
The subspecies, Taurotragus oryx livingstonei was first described from Sikosi village on the Zambian side of the Zambezi River approximately 200 kilometres above Livingstone.
Eland, like buffalo, are now scarce in the immediate vicinity of the Falls, not being recorded within recent years on the Zambian side except in the Mosi-oa-Tunya Zoological Park, but there is still a small herd near Kazungula and Westwood on the Zimbabwean side of the river.
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 Eland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
So are the rewards, for their flesh is of the finest, and it comes by the truck load.
Two species occur: Taurotragus oryx and Taurotragus derbianus, the latter being the giant or Lord Derby eland.
There are three subspecies of T. oryx, namely the Cape eland (To.
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 Zoo Prion Disease: Review of Scientific Literature
Eland, nyala, bison, ankole, arabianory, and scimitar-horned oryx
The scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) TSE case is described in print for the first time, based on an interview with veterinarians Sandra Scholes [at Veterinary Pathology, University of Liverpool in 1993] and Derek Lyon.
The arabian orxy was born at the Zurich Zoo 12 Jan 86 and imported to the London Zoo RP in Oct 86.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
ELAND [eland], large, spiral-horned African antelope, genus Taurotragus, found in brush country or open forest at the edge of grasslands.
The common eland, Taurotragus oryx, of S and E Africa, stands almost 6 ft (1.8 m) high at the shoulder and may weight up to 2,000 lb (910 kg).
Its oxlike body is light brown, with a few narrow white stripes running across the back and down the sides.
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 Television Point | Dictionary | Meaning of eland
[n] either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes
antelope, common eland, genus Taurotragus, giant eland, Taurotragus, Taurotragus derbianus, Taurotragus oryx
It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also {Cape elk}.
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 References   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hillman, Jesse C. "Group Size and Association Patterns of the Common Eland (Tragelaphus oryx)." Journal of Zoology, 213: 641-663.
Hillman, Jesse C. "Home Range and Movement of the Common Eland (Taurotragus oryx Pallas 1766) in Kenya." African Journal of Ecology, 26: 135-148.
"Dominance Hierarchy in a Herd of Female Eland Antelope (Taurotragus oryx) in Captivity." Zoo Biology, 23: 323-333.
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 Stock Photography image of Eland male ( Taurotragus oryx ) standing in photo
Stock Photography image of Eland male (Taurotragus oryx) standing in photo
Eland male (Taurotragus oryx) standing in short green grass, South Africa ?
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 CSIRO PUBLISHING - Reproduction, Fertility and Development
Interspecies nuclear transfer has the potential to conserve genes from critically endangered wildlife species where few or no oocytes are available from the endangered species, and where representative cell lines have been established for the wildlife population while numbers were still abundant.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental ability of embryos reconstructed with transfer of somatic cells from the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), bontebok (Damaliscus dorcus dorcus) and eland (Taurotragus oryx) to enucleated domestic cattle (Bos taurus) oocytes.
Skin tissue from the three wildlife species were collected by surgically removing approx.
www.publish.csiro.au /view/journals/dsp_journal_fulltext.cfm?nid=44&f=RDv16n1Ab57   (498 words)

  
 Eland {Taurotragus Oryx}
The Eland {Taurotragus Oryx} - The Eland is the world's largest antelope.
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South Africa Wildlife - The Eland {Taurotragus Oryx} - The Eland is the world's largest antelope.
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 Ageing, longevity, and life history of Taurotragus oryx
Ageing, longevity, and life history of Taurotragus oryx
One captive specimen lived 26.1 years old [0671].
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