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MARKHOR (" snake-eater ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARKHOR (" snake-eater ") , the See also:Pushtu name of a large Himalayan See also:wild See also:goat (Capra falconeri), characterized by its spirally See also:twisted horns, and See also:long shaggy See also:winter coat. From the Pir-Panjal range of See also:Kashmir the markhor extends westwards into Baltistan, See also:Astor, See also:Hunza, See also:Afghanistan and the trans-See also:Indus ranges of the See also:Punjab. The twist of the horns varies to a See also:great extent locally, the See also:spiral being most open and corkscrew-like in the typical Astor See also:animal, and closest and most See also:screw-like in the See also:race (C. falconeri jerdoni) inhabiting the See also:Suleiman and adjacent ranges.

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