Nilgai Antelope
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Boselaphus tragocamelus

The Spanish translation for Antelope is Antilope or Cervicabra

Home:  The forests of India and Pakistan

Food:  Grass, fruit and sugar cane

Size:  Approximately 600 pounds

Nilgai Antelope Trivia:

• The Nilgai Antelope has two stomachs.
  
  
• These Antelope are hard to spot because of their camouflaged coat.
  
  
• In India, villagers consider the Nilgai Antelope sacred.

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Our Meet the Animals section includes research from the following websites:

The Austin Zoo's website:  www.austinzoo.org.

Spanish translations courtesy of the Austin Zoo.

Rolling Hills Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center http://www.rhrwildlife.com/animbot.htm

The Birmingham Zoo  http://www.birminghamzoo.com/

The WWW Virtual Library: Zoos  http://zoonet.home.mindspring.com/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html

Photographs in Our Meet the Animals Section from PrintMaster Platinum v8.0 software.

Research on farm animals came primarily from  http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/

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