gemsbok (Oryx gazella) Etosha National Park, Namibia
Date 28 April 2007, 07:13
Source Etosha National Park, Namibia
Author Joachim Huber from Switzerland http://www.flickr.com/people/8942661@N02
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etosha_National_Park,_Namibia_(2863494002).jpg
The gemsbok or gemsbuck (Oryx gazella) is a large antelope in the Oryx genus. It is native to the arid regions of Southern Africa, such as the Kalahari Desert. Some authorities formerly included the East African oryx as a subspecies. The name "gemsbok" in English is derived from Afrikaans gemsbok, which itself is derived from the Dutch name of the male chamois, gemsbok.
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Hippotraginae
Genus: Oryx
Species: Oryx gazella (Linnaeus, 1758)