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  Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus)
Nilgai were imported into Texas as game animals and have readily reproduced and established free-ranging populations.
The majority of Texas nilgai are found in free-ranging populations on several large ranches in Kenedy and Willacy counties.
Nilgai typically herd in small groups of about 10 animals although larger groups of 20-70 are occasionally seen.
www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/bosetrag.htm   (544 words)

  
 Nilgai
The nilgai is mainly diurnal, with peaks in activity in the early morning and late afternoon.
Like the flbuck, there are currently more nilgai living in a semi-wild state in Texas than in their native India, with estimated populations of 15,000 and 10,000 respectively.
Nilgai is from the Hindustani word nil, meaning blue, and the Persian word gaw, meaning cow: a reference to the male's slate blue colouration.
www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Boselaphus_tragocamelus.html   (392 words)

  
 ADW: Boselaphus tragocamelus: Information
Nilgai antelope are among the largest of the asian antelopes.
Nilgai antelopes are usually found in herds of about 10 animals, but larger groups of 20 to 70 have been seen.
Nilgai is from the Hindi word nilgaw which means "blue bull" referring to the color of the adult male.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Boselaphus_tragocamelus.html   (735 words)

  
 ANIMAL BYTES - Nilgai
The nilgai's short coat is yellow-brown in females, and gradually turns blue-gray in males as they mature.
But with the introduction of outsiders, the nilgai is now referred to as nilgaddi or ghodggadaha ('donkey' and 'mule'), indicating a change in attitude towards the animal.
Currently, there are 15,000 nilgai living in the state of Texas and 10,000 in their native India.
www.seaworld.org /animal-info/Animal-Bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/mammalia/artiodactyla/nilgai.htm   (317 words)

  
 Comparative Placentation
The placenta of the nilgai is a polycotyledonary epithelio-chorial organ.
Higher magnification of the villous structure of the immature nilgai placenta as it is intertwined with the maternal septa.
Nilgai antelopes have 46 chromosomes (Gallagher et al., 1998).
medicine.ucsd.edu /cpa/nilgai.html   (2461 words)

  
 Neelgai Antelope - Blue Bull - Boselaphus tragocamelus Pallas - Roj - Nilgai - Haryana
Locally it is called 'Roz' and the Hindi word Neelgai (Nilgai) refers to the bluish color of the adult male, and therefore Blue Bull is another name for the animal.
Nilgai are classified as bovids (family Bovidae), and with their close relative, the Four-horned Antelope Tetracerus quadricornis, are the only living representatives of the tribe Boselaphini.
In India, Nilgai occur from the foothills of the Himalayas southward to Mysore.
www.haryana-online.com /Fauna/neelgai.htm   (590 words)

  
 Stalking the Nilgai : Corpus Christi Outdoors | Caller-Times |
Nilgai indeed are not native to South Texas or even to the United States; they come from India.
Nilgai are native mainly to the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains through Central India, where habitat ranges from grassy and cultivated plains to hillsides and brushy areas with scattered trees.
Nilgai are grazers, which do not compete with the ranch's healthy deer population for food.
www.caller.com /ccct/recreation_columnists/article/0,1641,CCCT_868_4535861,00.html   (1335 words)

  
 Super-penetrating, super-premium bullets
Nilgai, however, are incredibly spooky and, as African professional hunters love to say, "switched on." By the time we took a look through binoculars and I got the rifle up, the bull was looking straight at us.
Greg's shots looked like center-shoulder shots, but the nilgai is one of those animals where the spine drops very low in the body as it enters the chest, so a center-shoulder shot is actually a low spine shot.
At the end of the very long day they had wounded and lost more nilgai than they had brought to bag, and everyone was shaking their heads at how tough these animals were.
www.gunsandammomag.com /gun_columns/choice_1021/index.html   (1632 words)

  
 Nilgai Antelope
Nilgais do well in zoos, and are very popular on Texas game farms.
Grazing Nilgais sometimes lower themselves to their "knees", and when eating leaves they can stand on their hind legs for a short time.
Nilgai are extremely powerful animals, and pound for pound, I would match them against any animal that I've ever seen.
www.schreinerfarms.com /neilgai_antelope.htm   (161 words)

  
 Nilgai Hunting, Whitetail Deer hunting, Hog, and Exotics in Texas.
Nilgai Hunting, Whitetail Deer hunting, Hog, and Exotics in Texas.
If you want a 2005/2006 hunting trip of a lifetime here it is. Nilgai hunting is conducted “Texas hunting Safari style” on the coastal plains of South Texas.
Nilgai are large animals that are excellent table fare.
www.coastalwaterfowl.com /nilgai_hunting.asp   (327 words)

  
 Lion Country Safari - Animal Information - Nilgai
Oriental: Boselaphus tragocamelus, also called the nilgai antelope, evolved in peninsular India during the Tertiary geological period, where they are also currently found.
The head is long and slender and males have horns about 20-25cm, which are fl in color, sharp, and curved.
"The Mammals of Texas-Online Edition (Nilgai)" (On-line), Available http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot/bosetrag.htm.
www.lioncountrysafari.com /AnimalInfo/Nilgai.htm   (656 words)

  
 Mariposa Ranch - South Texas hunting for nilgai faq's
A: Our nilgai package covers two full days of hunting, with a two or three night stay at the ranch.
It includes lodging, meals, drinks, guides, vehicles, and your nilgai (bull or cow).
A: Our nilgai package is $2,700/man. If two men hunt per vehicle, the price is $2,000/man.
www.mariposaranch.net /mrfaqsnl.htm   (181 words)

  
 Nilgai Hunting -- L L Hunting Services
The ranch country was as pretty as we had seen it in years due to timely rains.
The hunt went as planned, between Lendell an the ranch foreman, we got a clean shot on a large Nilgai cow.
Three of us went for the Nilgai cow and the doctor sought out a huge trophy bull.
www.llhunt.com /hunts.html   (249 words)

  
 Nilgai Hunting Texas Trophy Nilgai Bull Hunts,Nilgai Antelope.
Nilgai Hunting Texas Trophy Nilgai Bull Hunts,Nilgai Antelope.
Nilgai Hunting Texas Guided Nilgai hunts,Nilgai antelope,South Texas Nilgai hunting.
One day of hunting Nilgai Cows and one day of Fishing for Speckled Trout and Red Fish out of Port Mansfield Texas.
www.texassaltwaterfishing.com /asgs/nilgai.cfm   (297 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Nilgai antelope (Boselaphus tragocamelus Pallas) were apparently brought to the United States from India as zoo animals before the mid-1920s and were released in South Texas about 1930.
In India nilgai occur from the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains southward to Mysore.
Nilgai were common in India and parts of Pakistan during the 1880s and were hunted for sport by the British.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/NN/tcn1.html   (864 words)

  
 NEW DOMESTIC ANIMALS COMING? - (Lessons From The Future vol 6)
Unimpressive as a trophy animal, the nilgai has been able to maintain a "wild" population of 14,000 in the semi-arid northwestern states of Rajasthan and Haryana.
For a farmer, the greatest advantage is the nilgai is the only bovid to regularly give birth to twins, which permits rapid increase in herd size.
Nilgai males, unlike other bovids which fight by pushing horns, merely entwine necks and test their strength by trying to wrestle the opponent to the ground.
www.drtomorrow.com /lessons/lessons6/25.html   (486 words)

  
 Nilgai
The Nilgai is mainly diurnal; its peaks in activity are in the early morning and late afternoon.
Nilgai are wary animals with a keen sense of sight.
Natural predators of the Nilgai are the tiger, leopard, and the wolf.
www.zooz.ca /Our_Animals/nilgai.asp   (143 words)

  
 Nilgai I took with bow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The cow nilgai antelope was at a distance of twenty yards.
Nilgai are very incredible animals that provide a very unique challenge to hunt, especially with bow and arrow.
Nilgai meat is considered a delicacy around the Green household.
www.petronet.net /troy/nilgaii.htm   (184 words)

  
 Antelope, Gazelle and Deer of Pakistan
Social Behavior: The nilgai is mainly diurnal, with peaks in activity in the early morning and late afternoon.
Today the Nilgai is mainly found along the Indo-Pak border in the eastern part of the country.
The Nilgai is now rare in the country, but reintroduction programs are in place and it is hoped that these will be released in the wild to secure the few remaining herds.
www.wildlifeofpakistan.com /ungulates_agd.html   (3312 words)

  
 nilgai - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Nilgai, large, long-legged, horselike antelope found on the Indian subcontinent.
Antelope : Types of Antelope : Nilgai and Four-Horned Antelopes
In evolutionary terms, among the most primitive true antelopes are the nilgai and four-horned antelopes (subfamily Boselaphinae).
ca.encarta.msn.com /nilgai.html   (80 words)

  
 Texas Safari Magazine: The Premiere Online Mgazine of Big Game Hunting in Texas:King Ranch Nilgai Hunting
The first time I heard of nilgai antelope in Texas was about the circus that went bankrupt during the Depression and released their animals on the King Ranch.
From a few modest releases Caesar Kleberg, the estimated population of nilgai today, even after periodic meat hunts to supply restaurants, is 6,000 to 7,000 on the Norias Division of the King Ranch and 10,000 to 15,000 in Kenedy and Willacy Counties.
A mature nilgai bull can weigh 600 pounds and is a magnificent-looking animal with its muscular frame and sleek, dark hair (to me it seemed that the darker the hair and bigger the neck, the bigger the horns).
www.texassafarimagazine.com /king_ranch_nilgai.htm   (2312 words)

  
 Desire and Devotion Exhibition on Asianart.com
These two studies of a nilgai, or "blue bull" (Boselaphus tragocamelus), and a ram are from the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1628-58), the famed builder of the Taj Mahal.
Although not as keen a naturalist as his father Jahangir, he was a sensitive patron of the arts and architecture, and painting continued to flourish at court, at least until his troubles with his sons in the 1650s.
While the nilgai is frequently represented in Akbar-period hunting scenes, a number of similar rams or sheep appear in both Persian and Akbari narrative pictures of the sixteenth century (Gorakshakar and Nigam 1988, no. 121).
www.asianart.com /exhibitions/desire/77.html   (521 words)

  
 Kent attraction: Wild animal park; adoption and conservation - Totallywild   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus), and chousingha are the only surviving representatives of the primitive stock from which the cattle evolved.
Nilgai calves are usually twins, and when young they lie motionless near the park fence, unnoticed by many people who pass within feet of them.
Nilgai are at some risk in the wild, but breed well in many zoos, including Howletts and Port Lympne.
www.totallywild.net /animals.php?animal=Nilgai   (395 words)

  
 Nilgai Hunt - Account/pictures of a  King Ranch Hunt with a Doc Jones custom rifle.
The ranch opens for Nilgai hunting after deer season closes and coincides with the rut for the bull nilgai and they keep it open until April 1st.
Early in the morning, we spotted a large bull in an stand of oak and Richard left the truck and stalked to a vantage point overlooking a break in the timber.
In the late afternoon around 4:00 pm the Nilgai bulls begin to move and we were able to get in position for a shot as two bulls and a cow ran by us.
www.docsgunshop.com /nilgai.htm   (864 words)

  
 Nilgai Hunting | Nilgai | steely blue bulls | Rocky Mountain goats | whitetail bucks | King Ranch
In 1930 a few Nilgai were turned loose on the King Ranch and in 1941 another small herd was released onto the Norias Division.
From this nucleus the Nilgai have prospered and spread.
Biologically, the Nilgai is a very large member of the antelope family that is native to India and Pakistan.
www.infohub.com /outfitters/1049.html   (471 words)

  
 Mansur: Nilgai (blue bull): Leaf from an album made for Emperor Shah Jahan (55.121.10.13) | Object Page | Timeline of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This subtly colored study of a bull antelope, or nilgai, is a taxonomically correct portrait of a particular animal (note the broken horn).
It also conveys the texture of the creature's fur bone, horn, and flesh, as well as its gentle spirit, which radiates from the glassy eye and contented expression.
Although the background is barely indicated, the contour of the nilgai is so beautifully modulated that the animal's form interacts seamlessly with the space surrounding it.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/ho/09/ssa/hod_55.121.10.13.htm   (263 words)

  
 Blaschke Exotic Deer Farm: Livestock
One of the largest of all antelope species, Nilgai are native to India and Pakistan and are territorial and aggressive.
Nilgai have white patches on the face and a white bib on the throat and a dark beard of hair that grows beneath it.
Unlike many other antelope, Nilgai horns are relatively short, and straight, averaging only 7 inches, but trophy sets may reach 9-12 inches in length.
www.exoticdeer.org /blaschke2a.htm   (938 words)

  
 Live Hunts - Nilgai Antelope Bowhunt - February 26
We didn't have long to wait, as the first Nilgai was coming to water less than 5 minutes after we got in the blind.
To think that I had hunted Nilgai 3 different trips and never even drew my bow, and then hunted this place and shot a bull within 20 minutes of being in the blind, was pretty difficult to believe.
Bringing your Nilgai back into Texas is not a problem, and you will definitely want to bring it back for a beautiful mount and some delicious meat.
www.huntinfo.com /livehunts/nilgai   (2030 words)

  
 Broken Arrow Ranch: The South Texas Antelope (Nilgai)
These animals are officially named the "nilgai" antelope and originate in India and Nepal.
They were originally introduced to the King Ranch in the 1930's by a family member who decided that South Texas was a tough environment for cattle that had evolved in a cooler climate.
His search for an animal that could thrive in the South Texas climate and produce a high quality, lean meat led him to the nilgai antelope.
www.brokenarrowranch.com /Articles/Articles-TheSTA.htm   (165 words)

  
 Wildlife Systems, Inc. - Nilgai Antelope Hunts, Texas Nilgai Antelope Hunts, Free Range Wild Nilgai Antelope Hunts, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nilgai are indeed a very challenging animal to hunt, and this is certainly a hunt destination you will want to add to your schedule.
Nilgai are very skittish, and their keen eyesight is atop an elongated neck making it difficult to approach them without being spotted.
Nilgai hunting here is as good as it gets, and hunters often see 25-40 bulls per day.
www.wildlifesystems.com /nilgai.htm   (557 words)

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