Oryxes Antelopes (Oryx sp.)

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Earlier, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) had reintroduced the Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) to Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Game Reserve in Batha Region, Chad, and following its success, it decided to reintroduce more endangered species, starting with the critically endangered Addax (Addax nasomaculatus), while increasing the conservation efforts of one of the last wild populations of Dama gazelles (Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama), offering a potential lifeline to these species from the brink of extinction. This month, the first wild-born addax antelope from an Abu Dhabi herd has been born in Chad, with a second calf being born two days later: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-animal-...#pid122148 Reply

[epaiva]

Oryx chasing a Cheetah
Credit to Pedro Archangelo De Souza Amorim 

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(01-13-2021, 07:53 PM)epaiva Wrote: Oryx chasing a Cheetah
Credit to Pedro Archangelo De Souza Amorim 

*This image is copyright of its original author

Both of these animals are semi-wild at Sir Bani Yas, an island in the Gulf which the Emirate of Abu Dhabi dedicated for the conservation of endangered species, including the Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx, the national animal of the U.A.E.) and the Northeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus sœmmeringii):

2 oryxes with sand gazelles (apparently the Arabian Gazella marica (also known as the rheem), if not the African Gazella leptoceros (also known as the rhim, slender-horned gazelle or Loder's gazelle, which is also present on the island)) at Sir Bani Yas; User "Losttraveller" (10th of May, 2012):
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