Wildlife in Kashmir
  Kashmir Stag Cervus elaphus hanglu:
  Musk Deer Moschus moschiferous
 

Chiru or Tibetan Antelope Pantohlops hodgsoni

  The Nilgai or Blue Bull Boselaphus tragocamelus
  The Goral Nemorhaedus goral
  The Serow Capricornis sumatraensis
  Markhor Capra falconeri
  Ibex Capra ibex
  Bharal or Blue sheep Pseudois nayaur
  Shapu Ovis vignei
  The Leopard Panthera pardus
  Snow leopard Panthera uncial
  The Himalayan Black Bear Selenarctos thibetanus
  The Brown Bear: Ursus arctos

The Nilgai or Blue Bull Boselaphus tragocamelus

A great ungainly animal: somewhat horse like in built, with high withers and low rump.The adult bull has a coarse iron-grey coat, a white ring below each fetlock and two white spots on each cheek. His lips, chin, the inside of the two ears, and the under surface of his tail are white. Young bulls and the cows are tawny. Both sexes have dark manes and the males wear a distinctive tuft of stiff black hairs on the throat. The bulls have stout cone like horns.

They are distinctly keeled, triangular at the base and circular towards the tips. Its found only in Indian peninsula from the base of Himalayas to Mysore Males are usually 130 to 140 CMS high may reach unto 150 CMS. Females much smaller. Horns average of 20 CMS. The maximum record is 29.8 CMS.
Nilgai avoid dense forest. Their usual haunts are hill sparsely dotted hills. They freely enter cultivation and are a source of damage to crops. They feed till late in the morning, and again early in the evening, caring little about the sun, seeking the shade only during the hottest hours of the day. They both graze and browse. The freshly fallen flowers Mahwa (madhuca indica) tree attract Nilgai. It can do for a long period with out water and during the hot weather do not drink regularly. Smell and sight are good in these animals, hearing moderately developed. Nilgai like other antelope have the habit of resorting to the same spot to deposit their droppings so as to reassemble scattered members of a heard. They usually form a heard of four to ten members and some time more than that. The young are produced at all seasons. The period of gestation is 8 to 9 months. The female attains sexual maturity at the age of 25 months. In many parts of India they enjoy complete immunity being regarded as a near relative of cow and there fore sacred.

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