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Page 107
... urial sheep . And later , upriver , I suddenly spotted many tawny bodies rac- ing up a slope : a herd of twenty - three urial - nine ewes , six lambs , seven rams , and one individual whose sex I could not ascertain before the animals ...
... urial sheep . And later , upriver , I suddenly spotted many tawny bodies rac- ing up a slope : a herd of twenty - three urial - nine ewes , six lambs , seven rams , and one individual whose sex I could not ascertain before the animals ...
Page 137
... urial , a different subspecies from the Ladak urial I had seen in the Karakoram . However , in many areas the Afghan urial has been so seriously deci- mated that I saw only an occasional individual or small group . instance , one March ...
... urial , a different subspecies from the Ladak urial I had seen in the Karakoram . However , in many areas the Afghan urial has been so seriously deci- mated that I saw only an occasional individual or small group . instance , one March ...
Page 144
... urial in 1970 , when , with Zahid Beg Mirza , I spent a month at Kalabagh . At that time urial be- havior had not been described , in contrast to American mountain sheep which had received detailed study by Valerius Geist . With their ...
... urial in 1970 , when , with Zahid Beg Mirza , I spent a month at Kalabagh . At that time urial be- havior had not been described , in contrast to American mountain sheep which had received detailed study by Valerius Geist . With their ...
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