four-horned antelope
tetracerus quadricornis latin

It is related to the modern Nilgai and Four-horned Antelope.

Four-horned antelopes are about 0.60 meters high, and they weigh about 20 kilograms.

Predators of four-horned antelopes include tigers, leopards, and dholes.

Four-horned antelopes reside predominantly in the hills.

Because of the hunting and also because of habitat loss, there are now fewer than 100 four-horned antelopes.

Four-horned antelopes live in India and Nepal.

Four-horned Antelopes live alone.

There reserve is home to a great variety of deer, tiger, leopard, black buck, four-horned antelopes, crocodiles, monkeys, etc.

Four-horned antelopes are hunted by trophy-hunters because of their four horns, but they are also hunted for their meat.

Four-horned Antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis)

Bandipur supports a good population of endangered and vulnerable species like Indian elephants, gaurs, tigers, sloth bears, muggers, Indian rock pythons, four-horned antelopes and dholes.

The main herbivores of Gir are Chital, Nilgai (or Bluebull), Sambar, Four-horned Antelope, Chinkara and Wild boar.

Other animals to be found in the NP are Mouse Deer, Sambhar, Four-horned antelopes, Nilgai, Kakar, small Indian Civets, ant eating Pangolin, porcupine and Mongoose.

Reported from the area are Gaur (Indian Bison), Nilgai, Black Buck, Chausingha (Four-horned Antelope), Sambar, Chital, Indian Muntjac, Indian Spotted Chevrotain and Wild Boar.

The area is home to significant numbers of Predators such as Leopard, Dhole, Sloth Bear, Marsh Crocodile, Jackal and Prey species such as Chital, Gaur, Sambar (deer), Grizzled giant squirrel, Four-horned Antelope, Smooth-coated otter, Elephant, etc.

Threatened mammals in the upper Gangetic Plain include the tiger, elephant, sloth bear, and chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis).