Arabian oryx are built for the desert. Their white coats reflect the sun and keep them cool. Their wide hooves spread out on the sand. They can go for weeks without drinking, getting most of their water from the plants they eat and the cool morning dew.
They live in small herds, led by an older female. They can sense rain from a huge distance away - sometimes 70 kilometres - and the whole herd will walk together to where they know fresh plants will be growing.
Sadly, by the 1970s wild Arabian oryx had been hunted until there were almost none left. The last wild one was seen in 1972. But people had kept some safely in zoos. Israel set up a special reserve in the Negev called Hai-Bar, where oryx born in zoos learned how to live wild again before being released.
Today there are again hundreds of wild oryx, including herds in Israel. It is one of the world's best wildlife rescue stories - an animal that had completely disappeared from the wild was brought back by people working together across many countries.