Markhor

The markhor is a large species of wild goat that is found in northeastern Afghanistan, northern and central Pakistan, Kashmir in northern India, southern Tajikistan, southern Uzbekistan and in the Himalayas.

This reddish gray goat has a short, smooth coat in the summer, but it gets longer and shaggier in the winter. A full grown male is almost twice as heavy compared to the female, and has a shaggy mane of dark hair extending to the knees.Its spectacular spiraled horns reach 1.6m tall in the make, but only 0.254m in the female. Active in the early morning and late afternoon, the markhor rarely ventures above the snow line.