Takin
Budorcas taxicolor
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Budorcas taxicolor
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Large (2–4 m)
- Active
- At dawn and dusk
- Continent
- Asia
- Habitat
- Mountains, Forest
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Bhutan has chosen the takin as its national animal.
- In summer takins climb to alpine meadows high in the mountains and move down into forests in winter.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q193469 · All animals · All entries