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TAHR

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 358 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAHR  , the native name of a shaggy-haired

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brown Himalayan
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wild
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goat characterized by its
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short, triangular and sharply keeled horns . Under the name of Hemitragus jemlaicus, it typifies a genus in which are included the wariatu, or Nilgiri
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ibex (H. hylocrius), from the Nilgiri and Anamalai hills of
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Southern
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India, and a small
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species, H. jayakeri, from
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South
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Arabia . Tahr frequent the worst ground of almost all ruminants .

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