CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

Addax

Addax nasomaculatus

Addax

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Unlike other antelopes, the addax has squarish teeth like a cow. Some historians believe that the addax was at least partly domesticated by the ancient Egyptians. One of the addax’s adaptations to a desert habitat is that they rarely need to drink water.

Scientific Classification

KINGDOM

Animalia

PHYLUM

Chordata

CLASS

Mammalia

ORDER

Artiodactyla

FAMILY

Bovidae

GENUS

Addax

Location

Areas of Niger, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Libya, Sudan

Mammal

Herbivore

Habitat

Savanna, Grassland, Desert

Food

Desert Grasses and Scrub Desert Grasses and Scrub

Threat

Poaching
Habitat Destruction
Climate Change

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