Scimitar-Horned+Oryx

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Physical description Reproduction Behavior
 * Scimitar horned oryx are white with reddish brown necks.
 * Scimitar horned oryx are 4.6 feet tall.
 * Scimitar horned oryx head and body length is about 4.9 to 7.5 feet long.
 * Scimitar horned oryx weigh from 220 to 460 pounds.
 * Both male and female have curved horns.
 * Scimitar horned oryx are pregneat from eight to eight and half months.
 * Scimitar horned oryx give birth to one calf.
 * Scimitar horned oryx lives in herd up to 70 in the wild.
 * During the wet season Scimitar horned oryx migrate to the north Sahara.
 * The Scimitar horned oryx are agressive with other Scimitar horned oryx but not with humans.

Diet
 * Scimitar horned oryx eat grasses.
 * Scimitar horned oryx also eat fruit and leaves.

Scimitar horned oryx are found in the Sahara desert. But during the wet season they migrate to northern Sahara. They are corrently found only in preserved area's and zoo. Before they where extincent there habitat used to be Chad, Senegal, and African countries of Egypt. The Scimitar horned oryx was added to the endangered species list since the 1960's,there are only seventeen scimitar horned oryx left in the world, because of people where hunting them and climate change. The population of the scimitar horned oryx is seventeen left in the world. Something that could be down to save the Scimitar horned oryx would stop global warming, people stop hunting them, and predation. The endangered species act is the endangered species list. The purpose of the endangered species act is to preserve species that are about to come extinct. The history of the endangered species act was passed on December 28th, 1973, by president Richard Nixon. One amendment that we think should be added to the endangered species act would be that we should put them is their national habitat because for they could be repopulet. [] [] []

By: Matt Matousek and Annemarie Weisbach