Oryx dammah - #5021
Scimitar-horned Oryx
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
Morocco, Souss-Massa region, Souss Massa National Park
Image Date
4 April 2009
Photographer
KD Rudloff