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The evolutionary transition from a solitary goat - antelope , such as goral , to a species like the herd - loving tahr also requires a specu- lative comment . The intense period of mountain building that gave rise to the Himalaya also ...
The evolutionary transition from a solitary goat - antelope , such as goral , to a species like the herd - loving tahr also requires a specu- lative comment . The intense period of mountain building that gave rise to the Himalaya also ...
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Traveling south along the rim , we encountered another herd , this one with six animals , and motioning Venkedachallam to wait , I approached it , moving first up a depression and then in the shadows of a shola until I was within three ...
Traveling south along the rim , we encountered another herd , this one with six animals , and motioning Venkedachallam to wait , I approached it , moving first up a depression and then in the shadows of a shola until I was within three ...
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The composition of several herds revealed fragments of the tahr's social life . For instance , there was a bachelor herd with seven males , indicating that the sexes may segregate when not in rut . Once , far inland , away from their ...
The composition of several herds revealed fragments of the tahr's social life . For instance , there was a bachelor herd with seven males , indicating that the sexes may segregate when not in rut . Once , far inland , away from their ...
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| Title | Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya |
| Author | George B. Schaller |
| Photographs by | George B. Schaller |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Hutchinson (Australia), 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0233972153, 9780233972152 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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