Current North American population (from Mott and Putnam 2013)
- 73 animals, as of December 2013
- Distributed across 7 Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) institutions; 1 non-AZA institution
- 34 males, 39 females
- All descended from 13 founders; imported during the early-1960s and mid-1970s
- From the Yotvata Hai-Bar Nature Reserve in Israel - a part of the Israel Nature Reserves and National Parks Authority, which established and coordinated a protected breeding and reintroduction program for endangered and locally extinct animals mentioned in the Bible