Oryx dammah - #606
Scimitar-horned Oryx
Side view of group
Geographic Distribution
Extinct in Algeria, N Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, N Nigeria, N Senegal, Sudan, and Tunisia. Probably last occurred in the wild in the 1980s in Chad. Survives as captive populations.
Order/Family
Bovidae
Genus
Oryx
Specific Epithet
dammah
Image Location
Los Angeles Zoo, CA, USA
Image Date
1978
Photographer
B E Joseph