Blackbuck

None are endemic to the ecoregion, but the blackbuck is a threatened species whose populations take refuge in this harsh environment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Elephants knock down trees while feeding, and these fallen trees then become accessible to smaller herbivores such as blackbuck and sambar that cannot reach the branches of upright trees. ❋ Unknown (1997)

He collected numerous heads from his hunting days, including one of each: blackbuck, scimitar horned oryx, elk, fallow, pronghorn, boar, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The goal is to dry up the supply of blackbuck antelope and aoudad sheep being trucked to shooting galleries around the country, and to make sure no state becomes a refuge for the next Internet hunting web site. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The mammal community includes several ungulates of conservation importance such as the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), the chinkara (Gazella bennettii), and the small Indian chevrotain or mouse deer (Moschiola meminna). ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, the grasslands of southern Andhra Pradesh support a good population of the Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Neither exceptionally species-rich nor high in endemism, the ecoregion nevertheless harbors viable populations of chinkara (Gazella bennettii), chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis), and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) ❋ Unknown (2008)

The local people, especially the Bishnoi communities, have a cultural reverence for wild animals, particularly blackbuck and the tree Prosopis cinerea. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although none of them are endemic, there are several threatened species, including the tiger, gaur, wild dog, sloth bear, chousingha, and blackbuck. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The chousingha and blackbuck are threatened species and should be focal species for conservation actions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In addition to these lions, several other threatened mammal species deserve conservation attention, namely the threatened chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis), blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), and chinkara (Gazella bennettii). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Among the mammal fauna, the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), chinkara (Gazella bennettii), caracal (Felis caracal), and desert fox (Vulpes bengalensis) inhabit the open plains, grasslands, and saline depressions known as chappar or rann in the core area of the desert. ❋ Unknown (2008)

LaFonda offers other hunts year-round for game such as whitetails, doves, turkeys, and exotics (like axis deer and blackbuck antelope, which you can hunt now). ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Asiatic wild ass and blackbuck also represent threatened species. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cranes stretched their necks above the grass; now and then a herd of blackbuck (which were below our hunting ambitions) scampered away; the sky was full of wild-duck and other water-fowl. ❋ Unknown (1903)

'Tis a league and a league to the Lena Falls where the trooping blackbuck go; ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The territory of the Rao of Baraon lay within ten miles of the bridge; and Findlayson and Hitchcock had spent a fair portion of their scanty leisure in playing billiards and shooting blackbuck with the young man. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The 2.7 sq km GNP, located in the heart of Chennai, is home to the endangered blackbuck, herds of spotted deer, jackals, civets, over 130 species of birds, monitor lizards, snakes, turtles and tortoises. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Apparently, Raj Babu, as he is fondly called, had banned Salman from his cinema after the blackbuck-killing incident in Jodhpur. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hunting blackbuck with cheetah engraving from 1812, Wikipedia. ❋ Unknown (2010)