Arabian Oryx was entitled as the official United Arab Emirates national animal. Oryx leucoryx is the scientific name of Arabian Oryx. It is commonly known as Arabian Oryx or Oryx and also called in many names like the maha, wudhaihi, baqar al wash, boosolah in Arabic and white Oryx in English, and dishon in Hebrew, which are native found in the Sinai, Palestine, the Transjordan, much of Iraq, and most of the Arabian Peninsula.
It is also re-introduced in United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Syria, and Jordan and with a small population in Hawar Island of Bahrain, and large semi managed populations at several sites in United Arab Emirates and the UAE. The United Arab Emirates’ national animal Arabian Oryx is the well accepted to the people of United Arab Emirates and that is the reason to designate as the official national animal of the country.
The national animal of United Arab Emirates, Arabian Oryx are almost luminous white, the undersides and legs are brown, and black stripes occur where the head congregate the neck, on the forehead, on the nose, and going from the horn down across the eye to the mouth.
They have a black ornamented tail and black tipped ears. Their light colored coat helps them reflect the heat of the sun. Both sexes have long, straight or slightly curved, ringed horns which are 50 to 75 cm (20 to 30 in) long. The Arabian Oryx is a desert antelope can once again be seen itinerant the dry Arabian Peninsula, which was extinct in the wild. This species of antelope is vastly specialized for its insensitive desert environment. The hooves are splayed and shovel-like, which are providing a large surface area to walk on the sandy ground