Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Artiodactyla > Bovidae > Naemorhedus > Naemorhedus goralNaemorhedus goral (goral)Synonyms: Antilope goral (homotypic); Nemorhaedus goral (homotypic) The Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) is a bovid species found across the Himalayas. It has been classified as "Near Threatened" by IUCN because it is believed to be in significant decline due to hunting for food and habitat loss. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.57 EDGE Score: 2.21 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 69.997 lbs (31.75 kg) | | Birth Weight [1] | 4.409 lbs (2.00 kg) |  | | Diet [2] | Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Plants [2] | 80 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year 4 months | | Male Maturity [1] | 1 year 4 months | | | Gestation [1] | 7 months 5 days | | Litter Size [1] | 1 | | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 18 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 3.87 feet (118 cm) |
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Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Himalayan subtropical pine forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
China, India, Bhutan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
China, Pakistan, India |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
India, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Pakistan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
India, Pakistan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4Food plants and feeding habits of Himalayan ungulates, Anjali Awasthi, Sanjay Kr. Uniyal, Gopal S. Rawat and S. Sathyakumar, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 85, NO. 6, 25 SEPTEMBER 2003 ♦ 5Cuon alpinus, James A. Cohen, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 100, pp. 1-3 (1978) ♦ 6International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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