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goral
an intermediate type between goat and antelope. Look, smell and climb like goats but have wide muzzles like antelopes and are not bearded. Called also Naemorhedus spp.


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At Hyangro Peak, soldiers with the best throwing arms are selected to chuck cabbages over a high fence to feed gorals, a species of mountain goat that is actually classified as an antelope.
Likewise, Robert Slayton notes that even in a tight, seemingly homogenous immigrant community such as the Polish community in Chicago's Back of the Yards, working-class immigrants made fine distinctions between elite churches and the parish reserved for the Gorals, Poland's slighted Tatra "hillbillies.
 
 
 
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