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The Arabian Sand Gazelle
The Arabian Sand Gazelle is native to the Arabian peninsula, belonging to the Bovidae family in the Antilopini tribe. It is greatly studied by researchers for its heterothermy.

Desert Adaptations
The sand gazelle, which is smaller in size compared to the oryx, has a thermoregulatory system that regulates at a higher set-point. It has a higher average, minimum, and maximum 24-hour body temperature. However, the oryx and sand gazelle responded similarly to environmental conditions even with the oryx being 4 times more the body weight of the Sand Gazelle. Animals that are small, such as the sand gazelles have ways of going into small micro-environments. The sand gazelle, during the summer, will go into cooler microhabitats. An example of this would be rock crevices, which are inaccessible to the oryx.