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Imagine a goat and a cow had a baby, then gave up on design.
means A large, heavyset hoofed mammal of the Himalayas and nearby mountains, related to goats and sheep, with a thick coat and a bulging nose built for breathing frigid air.
from The English name borrows directly from the animal's regional name in the Mishmi Hills/northeast India–Myanmar border area, picked up by 19th-century Western naturalists describing a creature so odd it needed importing a word along with the specimen — unrelated to the English verb 'take,' despite looking like it.
- national animal
- Bhutan's official beast, oozing gummy-bear majesty
- self-oiling fur
- secretes greasy coating that repels rain entirely
- goat-antelope
- neither goat nor antelope, taxonomically its own weird thing
- nose shape
- moose-like snout evolved to warm freezing mountain air