Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Artiodactyla
- ---- family: Bovidae
- ----- species: Oryx gazella
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Characteristics: | herbivore; height: 120 cm; the coat is light brown to ash grey with a black stripe along the flanks and on the back; white face with black patches on the snout and high on the forehead; both sexes have long straight horns; females are slightly smaller than males, |
Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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Ecoregions: |
- AT0702
- Angolan Mopane woodlands
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
- AT1310
- Kaokoveld desert
- AT1316
- Namibian savanna woodlands
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References: | Cillié 1997: 32 |