markhoor

[ mahr-koor ]

/ ˈmɑr kʊər /

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Question 1 of 12

On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

The markhoor was just below us, round a turn in the Indus Valley.
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I had been shifting, trying to get on markhoor ground, and on this day I killed my first markhoor.
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Five days later I got two ibex, which at a distance we had mistaken for markhoor.
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As soon as I got well, I started off for the real mountains, hoping especially to get ibex and markhoor.
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The markhoor is a magnificent goat, with long whitish hair and great spiral horns.
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