bharal

Updated: July 17, 2026

This same bharal has the goat-like habit of raising itself upon its hind legs before butting. Both groups are a comparatively late development of the bovine stock, as they do not certainly appear before the upper Pliocene of Europe and Asia, and even at a later date their remains are not plentiful. Goats appear to have been rather the earlier, but are entirely absent from America.

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