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Encyclopedia Britannica



TAKIN

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 365 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TAKIN , the Mishmi name of a remarkable hollow-horned ruminant (Budorcas taxicolor), the typical representative of which inhabits the Mishmi Hills, in the
south
 -
east
  corner of Tibet, immediately north of the Assam Valley, while a second form is found further
east
 , in the Moupin
district
 . The takin, which may be compared in size to a Kerry cow, is a clumsily built brute with yellowish-brown
hair
  and curiously curved horns, which recall those of the
South
 
African
  white-tailed gnu. Its nearest relatives appear to be the serows of the outer Himalaya and the Malay countries, which are in many respects intermediate between goats and antelopes, but it is not improbably also related to the musk-ox (q.v.). As it lacks the thick woolly coat of the two Tibetan antelopes known as the chiru and the goa, there can be little doubt that it inhabits a country with a less severe climate than that of the Central Tibetan
plateau
 , and it is probably a native of the more or less wooded districts of comparatively low
elevation
  forming the outskirts of Tibet. It is remarkable for the shortness of the cannon-bones of the legs, in which it resembles the Rocky Mountain goat.


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