Sentence examples for bovid from inspiring English sources

Mountain goats belong to the goat antelope tribe, Rupicaprini, of the bovid family.

At the climax of bovid diversity and abundance in the later Pliocene and Pleistocene (which has been called the golden age of mammals), there were many more genera and species than there are now.

In an ironic turn of events, out of the extraordinary array of 143 bovid species, only one sheep, one goat, and three bovine species have been domesticated.

The second subfamily is the duiker, a small primitive bovid that lives in the thickets, bush, and forests.

The earliest bovid, known from fossil horn cores, occurs in Eurasia in the Miocene Epoch about 18 million years ago.

All but four of the 75 African bovid species are antelopes, and south of the Sahara there are only one buffalo, one sheep (the aoudad) and two goats (ibexes).

In many bovids and the pronghorn, but not in giraffes or deer, the molars are markedly high crowned.

Inguinal (belly) glands are found in bovids, there being two in sheep, saiga, chiru, gazelles, duikers, and blackbuck, and four in members of the tribes Reduncini and Tragelaphini.

After the Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago, many bovids and other ruminants became extinct in the Northern Hemisphere.

Bovids are far and away the most diverse, widespread, and abundant family of hoofed mammals.

However, large populations of a few wild bovids still survive to show what the ecosystems of Africa and Asia were like when they were still intact.