Baby Julien arrived just in time for Mother’s Day. https://bit.ly/3DT2Sbz | Good Morning America

Our zookeeping staff is proud to announce the arival of a new baby addax antelope! With the addax being critically endangered in the wild - they are native to the Sahara Desert of Africa - it's always a celebration when one is born at the park. And soon Lake Tobias Wildife Park will be opening - May 1st is opening day for the 2021 season! See ya' at the Zoo! | Lake Tobias Wildlife Park

Imagine being dropped into the Sahara - no water, 120 °F heat, and nothing but sand. You’d last 3 days. The addax antelope? It can survive for years. No tricks. Just evolution. This endangered desert marvel: 🦌 Changes coat color by season to manage heat 🔥 Raises body temp to 106 °F to avoid sweating 💧 Extracts water from dry plants & even dew But here's the tragedy: 👉 Fewer than 100 wild addax remain. Some estimates say just 30–50 left. Read More: bit.ly/4nNgn1d #Addax #Conservation #DesertA

Meet one of the rarest antelopes on Earth – the Addax. Once roaming widely across the Sahara, fewer than 100 Addax are thought to survive in the wild today, with the species now listed as Critically Endangered. At Monarto Safari Park, our Addax are part of a global effort to ensure this remarkable desert specialist doesn’t vanish forever. Adapted to some of the harshest environments on the planet, Addax are built for survival – but poaching, habitat loss and conflict have pushed them to the brin