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Arabian tahr

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The Arabian tahr (Arabitragus jayakari) is a species of tahr native to eastern Arabia. [1]

40 relations: A Greek–English Lexicon, Al Hajar Mountains, Arabian leopard, Arabian Peninsula, Browsing (herbivory), Caprinae, Eastern Arabia, Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Emirates News Agency, Fruit, Fujairah, Genetics, Goat, Greek language, Gulf News, Habitat destruction, Herd, Himalayan tahr, Horn (anatomy), International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List, Jebel Hafeet, Leaf, Monotypic taxon, Nilgiri tahr, Oldfield Thomas, Oman, Poaceae, Shrub, Sir Bani Yas, Species, Tahr, The Gulf Today, The National (Abu Dhabi), United Arab Emirates, Wadi, Wadi Wurayah, Wildlife of Oman, Wildlife of the United Arab Emirates, World Wide Fund for Nature.

A Greek–English Lexicon

A Greek–English Lexicon, often referred to as Liddell & Scott, Liddell–Scott–Jones, or LSJ, is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language.

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Al Hajar Mountains

Al-Hajar Mountains (Jibāl al-Ḥajar, Rocky Mountains or Stone Mountains) in northeastern Oman and also the eastern United Arab Emirates are the highest mountain range in the eastern Arabian peninsula.

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Arabian leopard

The Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) is a leopard subspecies native to the Arabian Peninsula.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, ‘Arabian island’ or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, ‘Island of the Arabs’), is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate.

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Browsing (herbivory)

Browsing is a type of herbivory in which a herbivore (or, more narrowly defined, a folivore) feeds on leaves, soft shoots, or fruits of high-growing, generally woody, plants such as shrubs.

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Caprinae

Subfamily Caprinae is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids.

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Eastern Arabia

Eastern Arabia was historically known as Bahrain (البحرين) until the 18th century.

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Emirate of Abu Dhabi

The Emirate of Abu Dhabi (or; إمارة أبوظبي), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Emirates News Agency

Emirates News Agency (Wakalat Anba'a al Emarat), also known as WAM, is the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Fujairah

Fujairah (الفجيرة) is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, and the only one of the seven that has a coastline solely on the Gulf of Oman and none on the Persian Gulf.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

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Goat

The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Gulf News

Gulf News is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.

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Herd

A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic.

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Himalayan tahr

The Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) is a large even-toed ungulate native to the Himalayas in southern Tibet, northern Pakistan, northern India and Nepal.

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Horn (anatomy)

A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals consisting of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Jebel Hafeet

Jabal Hafeet (Jabal Ḥafīṫ, "Mount Hafeet") (variously transcribed Jabal, Jabel or Jebal and Hafit or Hafeet – literally "empty mountain") is a mountain in the environs of the city of Al Ain in Eastern Arabia.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Nilgiri tahr

The Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) known locally as the Nilgiri ibex or simply ibex, is an ungulate that is endemic to the Nilgiri Hills and the southern portion of the Western Ghats in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India.

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Oldfield Thomas

Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas FRS FZS (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist.

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Oman

Oman (عمان), officially the Sultanate of Oman (سلطنة عُمان), is an Arab country on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia.

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Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Sir Bani Yas

Ṣīr Banī Yās (صِـيـر بَـنِى يَـاس) is a natural island located southwest of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Tahr

Tahrs are species of large Asian artiodactyl ungulates related to the wild goat.

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The Gulf Today

The Gulf Today is an English-language daily newspaper based in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates.

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The National (Abu Dhabi)

The National is a private English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE; دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة), sometimes simply called the Emirates (الإمارات), is a federal absolute monarchy sovereign state in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.

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Wadi

Wadi (wādī; ואדי), alternatively wād (وَاد), is the Arabic and Hebrew term traditionally referring to a valley.

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Wadi Wurayah

Wadi Wurayah is a area between the towns of Masafi, Khor Fakkan and Bidiyah in the United Arab Emirates.

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Wildlife of Oman

The wildlife of Oman is the flora and fauna of this country in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, with coasts on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

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Wildlife of the United Arab Emirates

The wildlife of the United Arab Emirates is the flora and fauna of this country on the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula and the southern end of the Persian Gulf.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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Arabian Tahr, Arabitragus, Arabitragus hylocrius, Arabitragus jayakari, Hemitragus jayakari.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_tahr

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