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Addax

 

(Addax nasomaculatus), an artiodactyl of the family Bovidae. The male measures up to 2 m long, stands about 1 m high at the shoulder, and weighs up to 120 kg. The female is somewhat smaller. Both the male and the female have long (up to 90 cm) lyre-shaped horns with transverse rings. The legs are long, with widely splayed hooves—an adaptation for traveling on sand. The coloration is grayish brown in the winter and lighter in the summer. The addax has a white stripe across the nose and a tuft of black hairs on the forehead. It is distributed in the Sahara, but its numbers are sharply decreasing owing to intensive hunting (the flesh and hide are used).

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