A long-horned antelope native to East Africa, also known as the beisa oryx.
From Somali and Arabic 'baʻīsah'. The word comes directly from local East African languages and entered English zoological terminology through colonial natural history observations.
The beisa oryx is a desert survival expert—it can go months without drinking water and can sense rain from miles away, making it a perfect adaptation to one of Earth's harshest environments.
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