aoudads

A few snakes are often seen coiling themselves on the shrubs, gazelles, aoudads, and wild oxen, skip and bound and run about, now and then an ostrich races past or sails along, half in heaven and half on earth, and deebs (wolves) come down to drink at the pits during the night.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828