Golden takin
Budorcas taxicolor bedfordi / Golden takin
- Habitat
- Mountain forests and alpine vegetation communities
- Continent
- Asia
- Food
- Foliage, bamboo shoots and grasses
- Gestation/breeding period
- 220 days
- Mode of life
- Herds with 10 to 15 animals
- Class
- Mammals
- Order
- Artiodactyla
Key facts
~ 1.40 m
size
~ 350 kg
weight
~ 20 years
age
How endangered are Golden takins?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
- Least concern
- Near threatened
-
Vulnerable Vulnerable - Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
Did you know?
Golden takins are good climbers.
Golden takin on the zoo tour
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