A Conversation for Colours of Wildlife: Scimitar-Horned Oryx

The Expanding Sahara

Post 1

ITIWBS

Pliny the Elder, writing of the Sahara of his time, asserted that one could ride across it in a single day.

...and probably, even then, there were nomadic herders driving their herds of sheep and goats* in circles around its margin....




*The goat is sometimes referred to as "the father of the desert".


The Expanding Sahara

Post 2

Willem

Hiya ITIWBS! Thanks for that info about the Sahara Desert! Amazing to think that it has grown so fast. This animal originally also occurred on the margin of the desert itself ... but anyways, I think that reintroduction projects are soon going to help it.


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