The New International Encyclopædia/Goat Antelope

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1495946The New International Encyclopædia — Goat Antelope

GOAT ANTELOPE. A term applied by zoölogists to a group of ruminants having characteristics that join them to the goats on one side and the antelopes on the other; most of them, individually described elsewhere, have a more or less goat-like build, goat-like teeth, short tails, relatively small cylindrical horns, and no beards. The group includes the genus Cemas of the Himalayan region (see Goral.); the genus Nemorhædus of Southeastern Asia, including the cambing-utan of Sumatra, etc. (see Serow); the Tibetan genus Budorcas (see Takin); the genus Rupicapra of the European Alps (see Chamois); and the genus Orcamnus or Haploceros, which contains the white, woolly goats of Northwestern America (see Rocky Mountain White Goat). See Plate of Goat Antelopes.


GOAT-ANTELOPES

1. EUROPEAN CHAMOIS (Rupicapra tragus).     4. THAR or HIMALAYAN  GOAT (Hemitragus Jemlicus).
2. JAPANESE SEROW (Nemorhœdus crispus). 5. HIMALAYAN SEROW (Nemorhœdus bubalinus).
3. WHITE GOAT of Rocky Mountains (Oreamnus montanus). 6. HIMALAYAN GORAL (Cemas goral).