Feeding habits and food of grey goral in the Margalla hills national park [Pakistan]
2000
Anwar, M. (Ministry of Environment, Islamabad (Pakistan)) | Chapman, J.A.
A study was conducted on grey goral (Nemorhaedus goral ) for its feeding habits and food in the Margalla Hills National Park. Goral mostly foraged early in the morning at sunrise and late in the evening before sunset (75%). Their major food consisted of leaves of certain trees and shrubs when green grass was not available. They changed their foraging activities almost entirely to grazing on green grass during the spring and summer. Vegetation analysis of goral habitat revealed that about 60% of the vegetation consisted of plant species commonly eaten by goral. These species included Themeda anathera, Chrysopogon aucheri, Carissa opaca, Acacia modesta, Mimosa rubicaulis and Ipomoea hispida. Clumps of chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) were found on higher ridges with scattered grasses and shrubs as understory cover. Vegetation cover comprised 47.1% grasses, 33.4% shrubs and 19.5% trees. The frequency occurrence of grasses, shrubs and trees was 81.5%, 14.5% and 4.0%, respectively. Total ground cover was almost the same on both the northern and southern slopes. Livestock competed with goral for forage in most of its habit area.
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