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Scimitar-horned Oryx
The scimitar-horned oryx with their long, characterestic, sickle-shaped
horns which swoop over their backs, once thrived all over northern Africa
and are now the most endangered of all antelope. They are stocky, mostly
milky white and are now limited to very small populations in Chad and
Niger, They were once used by ancient Egyptians as domestic animals but
have been hunted to near extinction by local tribesmen. Ironically, there
are now more scimitar-horned oryx living on Texas' game parks alone, than
in all of the their native land. No one knows the true numbers of those
remaining in the wild and there could quite possibly be no more wild oryx
in Africa at all.
Nabuk
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