'Extinct' Graceful Oryx Thriving in the Saharan Wilds Thanks to Decades of Captive Breeding

'Extinct' Graceful Oryx Thriving in the Saharan Wilds Thanks to Decades of Captive Breeding

Even as the final scimitar-horned oryx was felled for meat and leather on the Saharan dunes, a network of zoos, hunting reserves, and even a royal menagerie, guaranteed they would live on in captivity. Now, 9 years after these graceful antelope were first introduced back into the lands they once roamed, they have become one […] The post ‘Extinct’ Graceful Oryx Thriving in the Saharan Wilds Thanks to Decades of Captive Breeding appeared first on …