Arabian oryx are the smallest oryx, measuring four feet high at the shoulder.
Their coats are white with black markings on their faces, chocolate brown to black legs, and tawny lines across their flanks. Long slender horns,measuring 2.5 to 3 feet in length are nearly straight. The oryx's hooves are splayed and shovel-like, adapted for walking in sandy soils. Arabian oryx's former habitat was the stony, sandy desert regions of the Arabian and Sinai Peninsula, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. Although now extinct in the wild, it was reintroduced into Oman in the 1980's.