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prettygoodword) wrote2019-02-11 07:38 am
prettygoodword) wrote2019-02-11 07:38 am
goral
goral (GOHR-uhl) - n., any of four species of short-horned goat antelopes (genus Naemorhedus) of mountainous regions of southeastern Asia.
Which is to say, they're mountain goats that look rather like stocky antelopes -- closely related to the Rocky Mountain goat. Their ranges covers mountains anywhere from the Himalayas to Veitnam north to eastern Russia/northern China, as well as the Korean DMZ. The name came from the Hindi name for the Himalayan goral or ghural (Naemorhedus goral), from Sanskrit gaura, same. A Chinese goral:
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Which is to say, they're mountain goats that look rather like stocky antelopes -- closely related to the Rocky Mountain goat. Their ranges covers mountains anywhere from the Himalayas to Veitnam north to eastern Russia/northern China, as well as the Korean DMZ. The name came from the Hindi name for the Himalayan goral or ghural (Naemorhedus goral), from Sanskrit gaura, same. A Chinese goral:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.