Chiru

Chiru, or PANTHALOPS (Antilope hodgsoni), a species of antelope, inhabiting the pine-forests and elevated open plains of Tibet, in regions bordering on the snow-line. It is much larger than the chamois, being about five feet in length, and three feet high at the shoulder. The colour is reddish-fawn with some black. The chiru lives in great herds, and seems to exceed almost all the other gregarious ruminants in watchfulness against the approach of danger. They often lie concealed in holes which they make among the stones.