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This animal which looks like a healthy goat is actually a Markhor. Markhor is the national animal of Pakistan. Markhor is a local word which is derived from two words “Mar” means snake and “Khor” means eater. Markhors are mostly found in northern areas of Pakistan like Sakardu and Gilgit Baltistan.
Snakes are its favourite diet. It is said that when a Markhor eat a snake, the poison of that snake spreads in its body. Due to discomfort of poison markhor breaks into tears. So due to these tears all the poison gets out from markhor’s body and Markhor become normal again.
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Have you seen any Markhor in your area.?
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What you call this animal in your language. Reply in comments.?
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I think snake is national animal of India.
I never heard about this.
Markhor is our national animal.
Yes it is our national animal.
pretty sure it is still a goat. those horns are so cool, even unicorns would be jealous…
Thank you very much Hina Hamid.
This is super, we don’t have such animal here.
These Markhors are mostly found in mountainy area.
No such mountain goats in the US. He is a very handsome animal and love those horns.
Yes Markhor’s horns are very beautiful.
We call it “Markhor” because we don’t have it here, or we call it “goat with very unique horns”. Thanks for telling us what the name means, I would have never guessed they were snake eaters, that was one interesting story! ?
Thanks for liking my story about Markhor.
We don’t have those in the US, even though it reminds me of a mountain goat but larger.
So many people in our country also call them mountain goat.
Nice and interesting
Thank you very much Malik Rizwan.
ooh waoo wondering nice
Thank you very much Hamza.
This is the national animal of Pakistan
You are right. This is our national animal.
Never knew an animal that looks like a goat can eat snakes
Finally i presented before you an animal which look like a goat and eat snakes.
Nice and interesting facts about Markhor, thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for praising the post.