🚨 New species alert! 🚨 Please join us in welcoming Franklin and Marshall! These two addax are half-brothers and the first of their species to call Denver Zoo home. With fewer than 100 individuals in their historic range, addax are critically endangered. Denver Zoo is proud to care for these unique antelope and help ensure the health and survival of addax in the future. (Please note: sparring is a natural, playful behavior for Franklin and Marshall. This video shows them making their public deb

Meet one of the rarest antelopes on Earth – the Addax. Once roaming widely across the Sahara, fewer than 100 Addax are thought to survive in the wild today, with the species now listed as Critically Endangered. At Monarto Safari Park, our Addax are part of a global effort to ensure this remarkable desert specialist doesn’t vanish forever. Adapted to some of the harshest environments on the planet, Addax are built for survival – but poaching, habitat loss and conflict have pushed them to the brin

#DYK that addax have reflective coats? Their pale coats act as a natural sun repellant by reflecting the harsh rays. This helps addax stay cool in the extreme heat of their native habitat the Sahara Desert ☀️ | Blank Park Zoo

🇹🇩#Tchad | 10 Oryx algazelle, 10 addax et 4 gazelles dama ont été réintroduit dans la Réserve de Faune de Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim la semaine dernière. Ces espèces sont ramenées d’Abu Dhabi par l’ONG Sahara Conservation en charge de la gestion de cette Réserve. Les addax ont déjà été relâchés dans la réserve, les gazelles dama ont rejoint le groupe de reproduction en captivité tandis que les oryx algazelle resteront encore quelques semaines dans les enclos avant de les rejoindre en milieu nature