Talk:Oryx

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The family this animal is listed under is incorrect, the article on Antilocapridae says only one animal still exists under that family. Online searches of IUCN show all the Oryx's listed under family Bovidae. Can someone give me a source to somewhere saying otherwise if I am wrong? Also, the name "Oryx beisa" is not listed in IUCN, a main source I thought was being used for these taxo articles. Reference for that too please? Just trying to clear things up, thanks. --Flockmeal 00:43, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

I find it under Bovidae Hippotraginae Oryx beisa. BUT... there are actually four species of Oryx, Oryx beisa the East African Oryx, Oryx dammah the Scimitar Oryx, Oryx gazella the Gemsbok and Oryx leucoryx the Arabian Oryx. However as you mention 'the smallest species' are you writing about the whole genus? in that case you don't need the species. --Furius 05:04, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I am not sure the one you show as "Arabian oryx in Israel" is actually an Arabian oryx. The title of the picture says it's a Beissa oryx. To see a real Arabian oryx try to take a look at its proper schede. Besides "Oryx leucoryx" means "White oryx": that's the reason why its main colour is white (as it really is) and not brown!!!

--Suhardian 22:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

29-Aug-09: The article "Oryx" has been one of hundreds that displayed the huge bottom navbox {{Artiodactyla}} which shows over 370 wikilinks to related species, families, suborders, etc. I have simply reduced that entire navbox to an elective choice, allowing each user to decide whether to display all the related species, from a single wikilink shown by using {{Navpages}}. Because article "Oryx" is viewed 400x times per day (average of 300-550 pageviews daily), and is now 10x times smaller, it will be displayed 4,000x times faster each day (meaning 4,000 fewer data-transfer blocks). Although WP developers dislike talking about performance, it is acceptable to make articles 4,000x times faster, as long as the decision is not forced onto other users. Gigantic bottom navboxes are a real problem (in my opinion), as explained more in WP:Overlink crisis. To help fight the excessive navbox sizes, consider shortening the articles which are read most during each day, such as those with navboxes exceeding 100 wikilinks. Rare articles or small navboxes are not a problem. -Wikid77 (talk) 06:01, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This totally crazy statement:

"The oryx may offer one explanation for the root of unicorns in mythology: from a distance, the animal's two horns may appear to be one."

is given without citation of any source, and it has nothing to do with the section "Ecology" anyway, so I'm removing it. If you have any objections, put it back in a proper place and as a well referenced claim. - Blueguy 65.0.221.140 (talk) 17:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to look it all up and edit it back in right now, because I'm busy -- and I agree that "Ecology" was a poor section for that -- but it is in fact the case that at least some Greeks believed the Oryx had a single horn. Aristotle lists it as one of two animals to do so -- the other being the mythical "Indian ass" -- and from one or both, the legend of the unicorn did grow. See also Chapter 2 of "Sacred Monsters" by Rabbi Natan Slifkin, which discusses the possible oryx/unicorn link in some detail. 76.121.187.193 (talk) 04:48, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The following sentence doesn't seem to make sense: "Oryx is one of four large antelope species of the genus Oryx." The article covers all species of the genus, so what is meant? FunkMonk (talk) 14:20, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, just changed the phrasing for the mention of Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Siege to make a little more sense. Hope that's okay.

Operator Saif "Oryx" El Hadid was introduced alongside Nienke "Iana" Meijer in Year 5 Season 1, Operation Void Edge. Links provided are to Oryx's Operator page, and the update page for Y5S1, Operation Void Edge (released early 2020).

I don't know if the mention is worth a citation or not, I'm fairly new to edits outside of game fansites. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Your-Toothbrush (talk • contribs) 23:05, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Does the two-sentence section "As an introduced species" need to be in this article? There's a much clearer and better-written paragraph about the same topic a bit earlier in the article. (Also, the number of oryx introduced into White Sands is inconsistent between the two sections.) I almost deleted the short section, but I thought I would mention it here to get other opinions. I guess I'm not feeling "bold" today... David10244 (talk) 07:00, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]