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oryx (gemsbok) Any of four species of antelopes. The male has a tuft of hair at the throat and both sexes have horns ringed at the base. Two species are almost extinct, but the other two survive in numbers in Africa. Height: 1.2m (4ft). Family Bovidae.

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