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Pseudois nayaur (bharal; Himalayan blue sheep)

Wikipedia Abstract

The bharal or Himalayan blue sheep or naur (Pseudois nayaur) is a caprid found in the high Himalayas of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and Pakistan. Its native names include bharal, barhal, bharar and bharut in Hindi, na or sna in Ladakh, nabo in Spitian, naur in Nepali and na or gnao in Bhutan. The bharal was also the focus of George Schaller's and Peter Matthiessen's expedition to Nepal in 1973. Their personal experiences are well documented by Matthiessen in his book, The Snow Leopard. The bharal is a major food of the snow leopard.
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Infraspecies

Pseudois nayaur nayaur
Pseudois nayaur schaeferi
Pseudois nayaur szechuanensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.66
EDGE Score: 2.16
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  124.011 lbs (56.25 kg)
Female Weight [1]  99.209 lbs (45.00 kg)
Male Weight [1]  148.813 lbs (67.50 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  50 %
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Gestation [3]  5 months 10 days
Litter Size [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  21 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  4.822 feet (147 cm)
Weaning [3]  6 months 2 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Canis lupus (Wolf)[7]
Panthera pardus (Leopard)[7]
Uncia uncia (Snow leopard)[7]
Vulpes ferrilata (Tibetan Sand Fox)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid worm)[9]
Marshallagia qinghaiensis <Unverified Name>[9]
Oesophagostomum asperum[9]
Trichostrongylus qilianensis <Unverified Name>[9]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Pseudois nayaur and Pseudois schaeferi, Xiaoming Wang and Robert S. Hoffmann, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 278, pp. –6 (1987)
♦ 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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Food 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
♦ 6Food habits of blue sheep, Pseudois nayaur in the Helan Mountains, China, Zhensheng LIU, Xiaoming WANG, Liwei TENG and Lirong CAO, Folia Zool. – 56(1): 13–22 (2007)
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 85.6 Tibetan fox, Vulpes ferrilata, G.B. Schaller and J.R Ginsberg, Sillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. and Macdonald, D.W. (eds). 2004. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 430 pp.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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