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There is an ungainly animal that lives across large parts of India. While in reality it is an antelope, Hindus consider it to be a cow. Called the nilgai which translates as blue cow in Hindi, this very mistaken identity has been an eternal saving grace for the Blue bull, known less commonly in scientific parlance as the Boselaphus tragocamelus. While ungainly and with this apparent confusion of identity, the nilgai really is a harmless animal and as with all young ones, their calves look rather cute, specially with their black and white striped socks. Of course the farmers of Haryana, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh would not agree, for the rojh or nilgai that raids their fields at night does considerable damage to standing crops. It has even been classified as vermin in certain parts, and l
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