What is Four-horned antelope?
{{Taxobox | name = Four-horned antelope | status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | trend = down | image = Vierhornantilope.jpg | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Artiodactyla]] | familia = [[Bovidae]] | subfamilia = [[Bovinae]] | genus = '''''Tetracerus''''' | binomial = ''Tetracerus quadricornis''}} The '''four-horned antelope''' (''Tetracerus quadricornis'') is a [[bovine]] [[even-toed ungulate]]. It is also called by its [[Hindi]] name ''chousingha''. It is different from other bovines because it has four horns instead of two. Four-horned antelope are about 0.60 [[metre|meters]] high, and they weigh about 20 [[kilogram]]s. They have a light yellowish-brown fur with a white underside. They have a black stripe down their forelegs. Males have four horns. The back horns are about 10 centimeters long, and the front horns are up to 4 centimeters long. Four-horned antelope live in [[India]] and [[Nepal]]. They live in forests. Four-horned antelopes live alone. They eat grass. Four-horned antelope are hunted by [[trophy]]-hunters because of their four horns, but they are also hunted for their [[meat]]. Because of the hunting and also because of habitat loss, there are now fewer than 10,000 four-horned antelopes. Today, four-horned antelope do not live in [[Africa]], but their ancestors probably did.<ref>Pilgrim G.E. 1939. The fossil Bovidae of India. ''Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India'', New Series. '''26''': 1–356.</ref><ref>Solounias N. 1990. A new hypothesis uniting ''Boselaphus'' and ''Tetracerus'' with the Miocene Boselaphini (Mammalia, Bovidae) based on horn morphology. ''Annales Musei Goulandris''. '''8''': 425–39.</ref> == References == {{wikispecies|Tetracerus}} {{Commons|Tetracerus quadricornis}} {{reflist}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q273580}} [[Category:Bovines]] [[Category:Mammals of Asia]]