Red Serow
Capricornis rubidus
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Mammals
The red serow, also called the Burmese red serow, is a goat-antelope thought to be native to southern Bangladesh and northern Myanmar. It sometimes has been considered a subspecies of C. sumatraensis. In the northeastern part of India, the red serow occurs widely in the hills south of the Brahmaputra river. although the IUCN states that this species is recorded with certainty only from Myanmar, in Kachin State, and that records in India refer to the Himalayan serow.Serow in South and Southeast Asia are threatened by habitat destruction, poaching, and disease transmission from domestic livestock. Myanmar and India face severe poaching issues despite legal protections.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Capricornis