Terms vs Bharal - What's the difference?
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A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois , goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; the Himalayan blue sheep, (taxlink).
* 1955 , The Alpine Journal , Volume 60,
* 1993 , Sharad Singh Negi, Kumaun: The Land and the People ,
* 1997 , A. David, Shivakumar, Animal World ,
* 2013 , Q. Ashton Acton (general editor), Advances in Conservation Research and Application , 2013 Edition,
As nouns the difference between terms and bharal
is that terms is while bharal is a blue sheep, being any species of the genus pseudois , goatlike bovids of the himalayas and western china with a bluish-grey coat; the himalayan blue sheep, (taxlink).bharal
English
(wikipedia bharal)Noun
(en-noun)page 262,
- On the way we disturbed the peace of three bharals and the female of a snow-cock ; the latter, with her brood hardly a week old, rose almost from my feet as I clambered round a rock tower.
page 106,
- In appearance, the bharal' resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the ' bharal is found in the desolate tracts of nothern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.
page 52,
- The bharal' or the Blue Sheep also is a Tibetan animal found in Ladakh, Sikkim and Nepal. It is about 90 cm. high. The ' bharal is brownish-grey in colour, tinted with slaty-blue, more brown in summer and more slaty-blue in winter.
page 142,
- Among the wild prey, bharal (blue sheep/naur) Pseudois nayaur was by far the most common species (92%).
Usage notes
The genus Pseudois'' is sometimes considered to be monotypic with ''P. nayaur (and subspecies).Synonyms
* (any species of Pseudois) blue sheep * (Pseudois nayaur) Himalayan blue sheep, naurReferences
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