A Markhor (Capra Falconeri), or Screw-Horned Goat in Afghanistan (image)

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Zalmai Moheb, an ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society's Afghanistan Program and a doctoral candidate at UMass Amherst,, with others, report for the first time documenting by direct observation the presence of the markhor and one other rare Asian wild goat species in the country.

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UMass Amherst/Zalmai Moheb

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