Goral (Himalayan goat) - an animal that in appearance resembles a gazelle, with more different from her elongated and thick torso, strong legs, thick neck, a shaggy hair and the shape of horns.Tapering to muzzle short head decorated with small and weak black horns 10-12 cm in length. In the section they are rounded, slightly curved back and evenly and closely spaced to each other, on top of a little apart and do not form at the end of the hook, bent sharply backward asat the same goats.The ears are pointed, narrow, reaching half of the head, white inside.Tail Gore is much higher than the overall length of the ear, and the chamois, they have approximately the same length.
thick, long, gryaznozheltovato gray, slightly curled winter fur.At the same time it is darker closer to the face.Along the upper side of the tail and the ridge extends black-brown stripe.Throat off-white shade.The hair on the neck to form a small standing mane.The front the front legs are black-brown, the rest - svetlorzhavo yellow.The upper part of the hind legs - the color of the body;rusty yellow, light from below.Behind there is a white, well-delimited spots.Interesting ear length of young goats - they are much longer horns.The body length of about 120 cm with a height of 75 cm. The females 4 nipple.Juveniles from adults are more faded color.Periodically, there are instances completely white.
Distribution
Himalayan goat (Hill) got its name from the place of its distribution - the Himalayas.It also occurs in dry open slopes and rocky areas of the forest to the east of Tibet, in addition, in the mountainous regions of Upper Burma and Pakistan, Nepal, China, Bhutan and India.
Lifestyle
Himalayan goat is well adapted to life in the rocks.He deftly and quickly climbs at a very steep slopes, as well as jumping from a great height.Even being badly wounded, he often slips away from his hunter.At the same time out of the blue, he is completely helpless - jumps up and almost no progress, in such circumstances are easy prey.It is also very dangerous for him deep snow.
Basically Goral keep small herds.They come early in the morning to feed and grazing until 10am.Then go to the rocks, where fit for chewing "gum" and rest on ledges and areas inaccessible steep slopes.It has a beautiful outlook, there are escape routes at all times of danger and blowing wind that drives away mosquitoes, abundantly available in the East.Goral frequently visited destinations, they are heavily trampled and strewn with heaps of manure.In the evening, the animals come out for the second time in the pasture and are fed up to the darkness.Only in early spring Goral, emaciated during the winter, grazing all day with small breaks.Where live animals tread the path because they prefer to wander on a particular track.
Himalayan goat, whose name, as we have already realized, the mountain has a well-developed hearing and smell.In this vision he is much weaker.The voice of the animal resembles a kind of chirping: "check-check ...".
winter, Goral adhere to the slopes without snow at this time of eating sprouts of shrubs and deciduous trees, lichens and mosses wood.In early spring, they often have to settle for food even more scarce - last year sedge - they find it blowing out.Then they move to warmer slopes, where the grass begins to turn green before and intensively fattened it.At the end of the summer in a large volume eat acorns, fruit and other plants.
Reproduction
Gon animals takes place in October.In gorals young are born in June, but sometimes goats appear before, and even in late summer.The mother usually 1-2 kid sometimes - 3 female chooses to give birth is not available, a quiet place, in the caves and crevices, under the eaves of large stones.
most dangerous enemy gorals considered a wolf, which cuts them in huge quantities.Himalayan goat is also susceptible to attack lynx and juveniles occasionally fall prey to large raptors and marten.
economic importance of
Himalayan goat distributed in such a narrow range, takes place so inaccessible and so numerous, that has little commercial value.It is obtained only by chance in an ambush, with the approach from the trails, as well as with the dogs chasing the beast.
value for human
Himalayan goat for a man long interest due to their warm fur thick and tasty meat.In the Tibetan and Chinese medicine has a healing broth, which is prepared from nepotroshenoy entirely cooked carcass of this animal.Udege taken as medicine decoction of horns Gore and his dried blood (although today in Primorye themselves Udeghes remains much smaller than the mountain goats).
At the moment the animal is protected.
