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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORYX (Gr. opvE, a pickaxe, hence applied to the animal)  , the scientific name of a
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group of
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African antelopes of relatively large
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size with long straight or
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scimitar-shaped horns, which are
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present in both sexes, and long tufted tails . They are all
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desert animals . 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
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Northern Africa the group is represented by the scimitar-horned 0. leucoryx or 0. algazal, and in
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Arabia by the small white oryx (0. beatrix) . See
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ANTELOPE .

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