Animals - Aquariums - Archeology - Insects - Fossils - Zoos
Jan. 01, 1962 - Desert Massacre To Please Harem: Sixteen oryx, giant members of the antelope family and some of the world's rarest animals, were mown down by machine-gun fire during a massacre organized by a desert chief to boost his reputation with the women of his harem. Before the mass killing in Arabia only about 40 oryx were thought to be still in existence - including one prized specimen at the London Zoo. The original herds shrank because among Arabs the killing of an oryx is supposed to be a mark of a man's virility. The man with 16 to his
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