“What animal looks like the combination of a horse and a cow with the beard of a turkey and short devil’s horns?” This description from Elizabeth Cary Mungall’s, Exotic Animal Field Guide remains my ...
The nilgai, an Asian antelope, is thriving in Texas. Effective wildlife management practices have helped ensure their numbers remain in check, preventing overpopulation and subsequent ecological ...
Locals of the Jot Bazar area, under Manda upazila in Naogaon, have rescued a nilgai—an endangered animal of the Indian subcontinent—on Tuesday morning. Nilgais were found in the north of Bangladesh ...
The Nilgai could lose its state animal status in popular perception soon as the Delhi forest department has clarified that it has no document to support the claim that the large antelope was ever ...
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS — South Texas ranchers brought nilgai antelope from a California zoo decades ago, when it became fashionable to stock their sprawling acreage with exotic quarry. These days the ...
Several viewers expressed concern for the animal’s safety. One person commented, “Poor thing must be so lost. I hope it was safely rescued,” while another suggested, “The authorities should step in ...
On Sunday night and early on Monday, residents of several locations of Balurghat town sighted an antelope suspected to be a Nilgai. Many people clicked its photos but foresters have yet to trace the ...
It was nearly four years ago—on December 1, 2015—that the central government put out the notification. “Overpopulation of nilgai and wild pig in areas outside forests” was causing damage, it said.
Night after night over the past week, Chhavikant Singh, a farmer in Bihar’s Rohtas district, has patrolled his patches of paddy and vegetable farmland, hoping to keep out herds of nilgai, the largest ...
In what was supposed to be a raid on illegally accumulated wealth, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Saturday found quintal of nilgai meat, animal skin, ivory and guns at the residence ...
The police in Bihar’s Vaishali district have filed a first information report against the driver of an earth mover used to bury an injured nilgai, The Indian Express reported. However, no arrests have ...