#oryx gazella

[lazer-t]

Gemsbok for a $15 Ko-fi supporter

[inatungulates]

Gemsbok Oryx gazella

Observed by caro_pietjouw, CC BY-NC

[psikonauti]

Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) in sand dunes, Namibia

Photographed by Sergey Gorshkov

[wind-tied]

Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) and Chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii)

[thegreatprinceoftheforest]

Gemsbok | Matt Muir

[oorionjeann]

graphite gemsbok, graphite on A4 sketching paper.

my favourite thing to do while I'm making art is watch the NamibiaCam livestreams. to celebrate that, I wanted to sketch one of the more commonly seen animals on the stream, the Gemsbok (Oryx gazella).

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Animals

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Aardwolf - a maned striped nocturnal mammal (Proteles cristatus) of southern and eastern Africa that resembles the related hyenas and feeds chiefly on insects and especially termites

Bittern - any of various small or medium-sized, short-necked, usually secretive herons

Chevrotain - (also called mouse deer) any of several very small hornless deerlike ruminant mammals of tropical Asia, the Malay archipelago, and West Africa superficially resembling the musk deer, the male having short tusks, and being among the smallest known ruminants, standing only about a foot high

Douroucouli - (also called owl monkey) any of several small nocturnal monkeys (genus Aotus) of Central and South American tropical forests that have round heads, large eyes, and densely furred bodies

Eland - either of two large African antelopes (Taurotragus oryx and Taurotragus derbianus) bovine in form with short spirally twisted horns in both sexes

Falconet - any of several very small falcons

Gemsbok - a large and strikingly marked oryx (Oryx gazella) formerly abundant in southern Africa

Hoatzin - a crested large South American bird (Opisthocomos hoazin) with blue facial skin, red eyes, brown plumage marked with white above, and claws on the first and second digits of the wing when young

Ichneumon - a mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) of Africa, southern Europe, and southwestern Asia

Jacana - any of a family (Jacanidae) of long-legged and long-toed tropical wading birds that frequent coastal freshwater marshes and ponds

Klipspringer - a small antelope (Oreotragus oreotragus) that is somewhat like the chamois in habits and is found from Cape Colony to Somaliland

Lammergeier - a large Old World vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) that occurs in mountainous regions, has long black bristles at the base of the bill, and in flight resembles a very large falcon; bearded vulture

Muntjac - any of a genus (Muntiacus) of small deer of southeastern Asia with an alarm call similar to the bark of a dog and having in the male elongated, downward-pointing upper canine teeth which protrude from the lip and short, usually unbranched, pointed antlers; barking deer

Nightjar - any of a family (Caprimulgidae) of medium-sized long-winged crepuscular or nocturnal birds (such as the whip-poor-wills and nighthawks) having a short bill, short legs, and soft mottled plumage and feeding on insects which they catch on the wing

Ouzel - blackbird

Palfrey - archaic: a saddle horse other than a warhorse; especially: a lady's light easy-gaited horse

Quetzal - a Central American trogon (Pharomachrus mocinno) that has brilliant green plumage above, a red breast, and in the male long upper tail coverts

Rosella - an Australian parakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird having the head and back of the neck scarlet and the cheeks white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast red and yellow

Springhare - jumping hare i.e., a sciuromorph rodent (Pedetes cafer) of southern and eastern Africa that resembles a kangaroo in form, that is about two feet long, and that is tawny brown in color and of nocturnal and social habits

Thylacine - Tasmanian tiger i.e., a somewhat doglike carnivorous marsupial (Thylacinus cynocephalus) that formerly inhabited Tasmania but is now considered extinct

Uintatherium - a genus (the type of the family Uintatheriidae) of large herbivorous ungulate mammals of the order Dinocerata from the Eocene of Wyoming resembling elephants in size and in the conformation of their limbs and having three pairs of bony protuberances respectively on the parietal, maxillary, and nasal bones of the skill, a pair of canine tusks guarded by downwardly directed processes of the lower jaw but no upper incisors, and a proportionately very small brain

Vaquita - a small, highly endangered porpoise (Phocoena sinus) of the Gulf of California having a dark ring around the eyes and reaching only four to five feet (1.2 to 1.5 meters) in length

Whitecoat - a very young hair seal and especially a harp seal

Xiphias - a genus (the type of the family Xiphiidae) of large scombroid fishes comprising the common swordfish

Zho - (also called dzo) a hybrid between the yak and the domestic cow

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[antiqueanimals]

A Study of a Gemsbok, Oryx Gazella. Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)

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[cu-riogach]

Campanian Romance

Parasaurolophus spp. is my favourite hadrosaur. The colours are inspired by that of a gemsbok (Oryx gazella).

[your-disobedient-servant]

I didn't think I'd be able to combine my interests in antelopes and 18th century but lo and behold, an engraving from Compte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle published 1749-1761, depicting a gemsbok oryx (Oryx gazella)

[bingwallpapers]

Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) in sand dunes, Namibia (© Sergey Gorshkov/Minden)

[inatungulates]

Gemsbok Oryx gazella, front and left back

Namibian giraffe Giraffa giraffa angolensis, back

With Cape crow Corvus capensis, left mid-ground

Observed by markuslilje, CC BY-NC-ND

[lord-allo]

Spießböcke oder Südliche Oryx | Gemsbok or South African Oryx

Oryx gazella

[jeezypetes]

I love you forever Oryx gazella

[thegreatprinceoftheforest]

Gemsbok | Gawie Malan

[biensdupatrimoinemondial]

2023 : ‘Uruq Bani Ma’arid. Arabie saoudite

Le bien englobe la partie occidentale de la plus grande étendue de sable soufflé par le vent sur Terre, connue sous le nom d'Ar Rub' al-KhaIi, et conserve une partie de l'un des paysages désertiques les plus spectaculaires de la planète. La topographie variée du site crée une large gamme d'écosystèmes. Le site est mondialement connu pour la réintroduction d'animaux emblématiques du désert, notamment l'oryx d'Arabie (Oryx leucoryx) et la gazelle des sables d'Arabie (Gazella marica). Les dunes mobiles constituent également un habitat excellent et bien oxygéné pour les invertébrés et les reptiles qui plongent dans le sable, tandis que les oueds encaissés dans le plateau calcaire abritent des plantes reliques rares.