The Arabian oryx or white oryx (Oryx leucoryx) is a medium-sized antelope with a distinct shoulder bump, long, straight horns, and a tufted tail. It is a bovid, and the smallest member of the genus Oryx, native to desert and steppe areas of the Arabian peninsula. The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wiled by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private preserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980.