Standing several yards apart, the bucks will walk toward each other with increasing speed, lower their heads and come together in a huge crash. But, if one buck is not prepared for the ramming, the other one will not attack. They will also fight by locking horns and trying to force each other down. Aoudads are found in the rocky desert and semi-desert areas of northern Africa. These desert dwellers are active during the cooler hours of dawn and dusk, finding shade during the heat of the day.
Aoudads are even-toed, surefooted animals well adapted to the rocky hillsides they inhabit.
Even the young, only a few hours old, are able to negotiate the rocks. Adults are athletic enough to leap objects more than 6 feet tall from a standing start. Because of the lack of cover, aoudads have developed an interesting strategy for hiding from predators. They simply freeze in place until the danger has passed or the predator is too close for comfort. The sandy-colored animal blends into its surrounding amazingly well.