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See also:ORYX (Gr. opvE, a pickaxe, hence applied to the See also:animal)
, the scientific name of a See also:group of See also:African antelopes of relatively large See also:size with See also:long straight or See also:scimitar-shaped horns, which are See also:present in both sexes, and long tufted tails
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They are all See also:desert animals
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The true See also:oryx of classical writers was probably the See also:East and See also:North-east African beisa-oryx (Oryx beisa), which is replaced in See also:South See also:Africa by the gemsbuck (oryx gazella)
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In See also:Northern Africa the group is represented by the scimitar-horned 0. leucoryx or 0. algazal, and in See also:Arabia by the small See also: |
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