Meaning of goral | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of an ethnographic or ethnic group traditionally found in southern Poland, northern Slovakia, and the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic.
2. A surname from Polish.
3. A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.

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“The goral has a wide distribution, from the Indus Kohistan region in the western Himalaya in Pakistan, across the eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, China and in a few scattered areas in South Korea, North Korea, eastern Russia and the adjoining regions of China.”

“The gorals of Shanxi, sometimes separated as a taxon vidianus, fall⟳ into the range of N. griseus.”

“The goral is a ruminant (cud chewer) closely related to the serow, but it is distinguished from the serow by peculiarities in its skull form⟳ as well as by its smaller size, shorter horns, and absence of conspicuous preorbital glands.”

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