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| Articles about Nilgai |
| Nilgai at JNU! | | 2008-02-21 12:41:16 | | Legend has it, that if a person spots a Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) in JNU, he either stays there for long or keeps returning!
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| | Nilgai Antelope | | 2007-01-15 21:20:00 | | The reserve near Bharatpur, India was first created for hunting, then became a bird sanctuary, and a refuge for nilgai - large antelope whose raids on crops made them a pest to farmers.Although never domesticated nilgai have been successfully introduced into Texas, and now there are more living there than in their native India.Only male nilgai have horns. Males are solitary except during the rut when they establish territories and gather breeding herds of up to ten cows. Nilgai cows and calves tend to stay in herds.Grzimek's Encyclopaedia of Mammals (vol.5 p.359) recounts that 'grazing nilgais sometimes lower themselves to their "knees" and when eating leaves they can stand up on their hind legs for a short time.' Sadly the film that NHNZ Images has of nilgai does not show this behaviour.Check out other inspiring, interesting and arresting moving images from NHNZ Images. As regular readers can judge from the tenor of the posts on this blog, we have a great deal of footage from all | | By: NHNZ Images | | |
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