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goat antelope
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goat antelope
n.
Any of various wild ruminant mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the mountain goat or the chamois, having characteristics of both goats and antelopes.
goat antelope
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any bovid mammal of the tribe Rupicaprini, including the chamois, goral, serow, and Rocky Mountain goat, having characteristics of both goats and antelopes
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Noun1.goat antelope - bovid related to goats but having antelope-like features: mountain goatsgoat antelope - bovid related to goats but having antelope-like features: mountain goats; gorals; serows; chamois; gnu goats
Bovidae, family Bovidae - true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats
bovid - hollow-horned ruminants
mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus, Rocky Mountain goat - sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America
goral, Naemorhedus goral - small goat antelope with small conical horns; of southern Asian mountains
serow - short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia
Rupicapra rupicapra, chamois - hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips
Budorcas taxicolor, gnu goat, takin - large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area
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While dancing, everybody sang the sharacath'aki song which announced the arrival of the markhors, the wild caprids (Capra Falconers) deemed to be the domestic goats of the fairies of the mountains, which are therefore connected to the high 'onjiSTa sphere: \tx wa~ k'arae sh'ara 'ilo \mb wa~ kar -a -e sh'ara 'i -u -o \ge place make IMPV.
The Winter Solstice Festival of the Kalasha of Birir: some ... by Cacopardo, Augusto S. / Acta Orientalia
These two criteria, already present in earlier phases, take on more importance at a specific cultural time, the passage of the Solutrean to the Solutreo-Gravettian: this particular event is also shown by the fauna (Villaverde Bonilla 1991-1992) and by lithics (Tiffagom 2003): it is marked by the abrupt decrease in consumption of caprids in favour of cervids, and with the appearance of bifacially retouched notched points (Figure 7).
Determining style in Palaeolithic cave art: a new method derived from ... by Pigeaud, Romain / Antiquity
The principal taxa of small herbivores are represented by caprids (96 per cent); the remaining 4 per cent are gazelles.
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