Himalayan serow

Subject: Environment

Context: It was spotted recently in Manas tiger reserve, Assam.

Concept:

It was spotted close to the border with Bhutan in Manas’s Bansbari Mathanguri forest.
The sightings of rare animals and birds in Manas is an outcome of better access to remote parts of the protected area where extremists and hunters once ruled
It has been sighted for the first time in Assam.
It is a Himalayan mammal, somewhere between a goat and an antelope.
It is a subspecies of the mainland serow native to the Himalayas.
It is a high-altitude dweller usually found 2,000-4,000 metres above sea level.
It is ‘vulnerable’ in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Other animals/Birds sighted in region recently: black-necked crane; Mandarin duck in the Maguri-Motapung wetland near DibruSaikhowa National Park