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Arabian Oryx
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The Arabian oryx, or white oryx, is a medium-sized antelope with a distinct shoulder bump, long straight horns and a tufted tail. A bovid and the smallest member of the genus Oryx, it is native to desert and steppe areas of the Arabian Peninsula; it went extinct in the wild by the early 1970s but was saved in zoos and private reserves and has been reintroduced into the wild since 1980.
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Named among the Arabian Desert's characteristic desert-adapted species.
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