gooral

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gooral (plural goorals)

  1. Alternative form of goral
    • 1854, Frederick Markham, Shooting in the Himalayas[1], page 43:
      Common in the lower and middle hills, the gooral where numerous affords very fair sport; but it requires a good cragsman to follow them in all places.
    • 1923, E. H. D. Sewell, The Log of a Sportsman[2], page 123:
      I had some fine exercise as well as some pretty shooting when trying to get a good gooral trophy.
    • 1936, H. S. Wood, Glimpses of the Wild: An Observer's Notes and Anecdotes on the Wild Life of Assam[3], page 84:
      They eat carrion, but do not hesitate to attack live animals, such as hares, foxes and gooral, a kind of capricorn very like the chamois. At Narkanda in the Simla Hills I actually saw a pair hunting gooral.

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