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addax

NOUN
  1. large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa

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  • You'll find the addax herd in the main pasture, generally hanging out along the scenic drive route.
  • At one point, some of the addaxes trotted over to us, no doubt looking for their customary handout.
  • The legislation defined 16% of the center of the reserve as a sanctuary to protect the small population of addax from tourist and other disturbance. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
  • The Twareg traditionally hunted gazelle, aoudad, addax and occasionally ostrich, using snare traps and dog packs, but as wildlife has declined so has hunting. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
  • The globally threatened dama gazelle (Gazella dama), addax (Addax nasomaculatus), and cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) may have previously occurred here, but they are no longer found. Atlantic coastal desert
  • The addax is able to obtain all needed moisture from its food, and rarely - if ever - drinks water.
  • The meat and the skin of the addax are prized by local people, who use the hides for shoes and sandal soles.
  • Because of the extreme aridity of its habitat, the addax moves over considerable distances in search of food.
  • Internationally important populations of five species of threatened fauna survive: dorcas and dama gazelle, addax, aoudad, and ostrich. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
  • Grouped together in two or three cases, are the sable and other antelopes from the Cape of Good Hope; the algazelle, and the addax and its young from North Africa; the sing-sing, and the koba from Western Africa; the sassaybi; the chamois of the Alps -- the subject of many a stirring mountain song; the goats of North Africa; the strange Siberian ibex; the grue and gorgon from the Cape; varieties of the domestic goat, and the beautiful Cashmere goat. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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