Latin scientific name: Pantholops hodgsoni
English is well-known: Tibetan antelope or Chiru
Chinese alternative name: Tibetan Antelope and long angle sheep hide well-known transliteration: Zu
Classify: Ou hoof eye , Niu Ke and depository Ling is. Is similar in apperance Mongolian gazelle, but it is much big.
Shoulder height: 80 — 85 centimetre( male) 70s — 75 centimetre( female)
Weight: 35 —( male) 24 of 40 kgs — 28 kgs( female)
Form: Arms and legs are symmetrical, strong. End is short , end tip. Coherent body is dense by woollen rich fine hair, hair has straight shape.
Particularity: There is still a little bag in every nostril, its role is to carry out respiration for help on air thin highland.
Woollen colour: Male a sheep , Geng , top weak palm brown colour, summer is deep and winter is shallow, belly department is white, volume surface and 4 leg have conspicuous shading notes, female sheep and pure Huang He, belly department is white.
Angle is long: Adult maleness angle length is upright, angle tip tiny bend , 50 — 60 centimetres ( female have no angle )
Life: Normally, do not exceed 8 years old
Habits: Integrated 10 is few arrive 1000 do not wait population, life is in elevation, 4300 metres is to 5100 metres ( minimum 3250 metres and highest 5500 metres ) on the meadow and high and cold desert and steppe of high mountain, look for meal sooner or later, good runs.
Summer female move pupil north along regular route, 6 — July returns after producing son to live through the winter land is sociable with male sheep, 11 — December mating, each foetus 1 sons. There is few population to be moved. Spread: Limit to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau only, with Qiang pool is central, south is on the north of Lhasa, north is to Kunlun Mountains, east is to the Tibet north of Changdu Prefecture with Qinghai southwest, west has few occasionally to Sino-Indian boundary flow in Indian boundary from this La-Da-Ke.