takin (Budorcas taxicolor) Tibetan Takins, Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China
Date 24 April 2015, 07:14:00
Author Jmhullot https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmhullot
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tibetan_takins.jpg
The takin (Budorcas taxicolor), also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a goat-antelope found in the eastern Himalayas. The takin is the national animal of Bhutan.
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Genus: Budorcas
Species: Budorcas taxicolor Hodgson, 1850
Subspecies:
Budorcas taxicolor taxicolor, the Mishmi takin
Budorcas taxicolor bedfordi, the Shaanxi takin or golden takin
Budorcas taxicolor tibetana, the Tibetan takin or Sichuan takin
Budorcas taxicolor whitei, the Bhutan takin.
