Amur goral, listed in the Red Book, on the territory of the National Park «Land of the Leopard». Archival photoVLADIVOSTOK, Jan 21 For the first time in more than 100 years, a calf of the rare Amur goral has been recorded in the Land of the Leopard National Park in Primorye, the agency reports. The Amur goral is the only representative of bovids in the south of the Far East extremely rare animal both in Russia and all over the world. The species is listed in the International Red Book as a «vulnerable» animal. The total number of gorals is unknown to science. The Russian population is fragmented into small groups.
"Scientists personally met the rarest ungulates of southwestern Primorye — a group of gorals with a goat, which for the first time in the last 100 years confirmed the theory of the presence in the area of a stable breeding group of these Red Book animals&# 34;, the message says.
Scientists previously only assumed that there were breeding pairs of wild goral in the national park. In 2017, only one individual, a female, was recorded here with the help of a camera trap. A year later, she again appeared to the automatic camera, and a male goral was also captured nearby. A new meeting took place in mid-January 2022. Timofey Petrov, an employee of the Land of the Leopard science department, worked with camera traps at the site where he had previously discovered the feces of these animals.A rare Far Eastern leopard was spotted in Primorye»I met a group of four gorals, one of them is a cub. the existence of at least one stable grouping of the Amur goral here. Now we know for certain that these animals breed on the «Land of the Leopard,» said Petrov, whose words are quoted in the message. a camera trap installed near this place.Previous studies to search for the goral in these places were carried out in 1978. Then a scientific expedition examined the basins of the Amba and Krounovka rivers, but the animal could not be found.Since then, it was believed for a long time that the gorals disappeared here.In the RIA National Park The news clarified that, according to literary sources, in 1889 in this area n and the well-known Far Eastern businessman and naturalist Mikhail Yankovsky hunted the gorals. After that, there was no mention of a meeting of this species. «Land of the Leopard» is the habitat of the rarest large cat in the world — the Far Eastern leopard. According to the latest data, 110 adults of these predators live in the wild in Russian protected areas.