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Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Addax. A. nasomaculatus (Blainville, 1816) Scattered western Africa: Size: 150–170 cm (59–67 in) long, plus 25–35 cm (10–14 in) tail [256] Habitat: Savanna, grassland, and desert [257] Diet: Grass and shrubs [256] CR 30–90 [257]
Grazing animals include the mountain gazelle and the goitered gazelle, the roe deer, wild goat, Nubian ibex and Arabian oryx. There are also rock hyrax, hedgehogs, hares, shrews and bats. The many species of rodents include squirrels, dormice, jerboas, gerbils, hamsters, mole-rats, jirds, voles, rats, mice and spiny mice. [9] [10]
Breeding season is at its peak during winter and early spring. The natural habitat of the addax are arid regions, semideserts and sandy and stony deserts. The addax is a critically endangered species of antelope, as classified by the IUCN. Although extremely rare in its native habitat due to unregulated hunting, it is quite common in captivity.
Many desert animals (and plants) show especially clear evolutionary adaptations for water conservation or heat tolerance and so are often studied in comparative physiology, ecophysiology, and evolutionary physiology. One well-studied example is the specializations of mammalian kidneys shown by desert-inhabiting species. [81]
The most common peaceful, tactile gestures are head rubbing and social licking, [187] which have been compared with the role of allogrooming among primates. [188] Head rubbing, nuzzling the forehead, face and neck against another lion appears to be a form of greeting [ 189 ] and is seen often after an animal has been apart from others or after ...
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose).
Desert tortoises inhabit elevations from below mean sea level in Death Valley to 1,600 m (5,300 ft) in Arizona, though they are most common from around 300 to 1,050 m (1,000 to 3,500 ft). Estimates of densities vary from less than 8/km 2 (21/sq mi) on sites in southern California to over 500/km 2 (1,300/sq mi) in the western Mojave Desert ...