Diagnostic Characters of Nilgai (B. Tragocamelus) Predatory Complex and their Grazing Impacts on Food Plants
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Grazing and browsing on cultivated crops are two important factors which causes loss in economy of the village people. Damage to the cultivated crops was caused not only due to gazing and browsing but also due to trampling, resting and movement of Nilgai which altogether destroy the standing crops. In browsing behaviour, the crops have a chance to grow but give least yield to the farmers Boselaphus tragocamelus Pallas,(1766), commonly called Nilgai or blue bull, a largest antelope, endemic to the Peninsular Indian and Indus divisions of the Indian Subregion in the Asia includes the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal (Dinerstein 1980).
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