oryx
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- n large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns
- Special kidneys allow the oryx to survive long periods of time without water.
- Now the oryx has retreated into the Rub' al Khali (empty quarter) of Southern Arabia, where at most 100 survive.
- The June 11 discovery of a one-year-old, one-horned deer may put Bambi in the company of the rhinoceros, the narwhal and the oryx as creatures who spawned the enduring myth of the .