livestock

hills · festival

People cutting and cleaning mithun's meat for evening feast on the occasion of Reh festival in Lower Dibang Valley. Mithun is reared as meat animal in Arunachal Pradesh and other northeastern states.

hills · livestock

Mithun, also known as ‘Cattle of Mountain” is an important bovine species of north-eastern hill region of India and also of China, Myanmar, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

hills · livestock

The gorals are four species in the genus Nemorhaedus or Naemorhedus. They are small ungulates with a goat-like or antelope-like appearance.

livestock · hills

Viewer discretion advised due to possible graphic content. Sheep being sheared in the Himalaya.

livestock

This clip shows a time-lapse of clouds with Bistorta flowers in a monsoon meadow below Lamkhaga pass above Harsil in Uttarakhand, India. A Garhwali shepherd is shearing wool from the sheep at the end of the monsoons.

river · hills

Two himalayan shepherd with flock of sheep along river. A group of sheep graze along the river side and some sits on a rock to rest. After sometime shepherd returns to their farm with his pashmina flock.

hills · livestock

Sheep flock together in a rolling green alpine meadow or buggyal pastureland in the high Himalaya of Garhwal.

Uttarakhand·hills · livestock

A large herd of goats and sheep is grazing across the green slopes of Darma Valley in Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand.

hills · wildlife

A Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) moves through its natural mountain habitat in the Himalayan region. The horned goat-antelope walks toward a camera trap while grazing and looking around the surrounding area.

livestock · farmland

A herd of domestic goats at a farm in Rajasthan, India, including mixed-breed goats identified as Sirohi and Ajmeri types. The goats are gathered inside a rustic, tent-like livestock enclosure.

Uttarakhand·hills · village

Cicadas calling in summer warmth and langour, cow bells ringing out, a Himalayan village in Mussoorie. Bada bagicha

livestock · hills

A herd of Himalayan Blue Sheep or Blue Sheep (Pseudois nayaur) grazes in the dry grass on the slopes in late autumn in the Himalayas. They look like a mix of sheep and goat.

Maharashtra·livestock · industry

These cows are made to urinate by rubbing their vulvas and the end product is for medicinal purposes, as seen here in Nagpur.

wildlife · snow

A snow leopard falls down from a cliff and walks it off. The snow leopard’s powerful build allows it to scale great steep slopes with ease. Its hind legs give the snow leopard the ability to leap six times the length of its body.

livestock

Children drink cow's milk in a rather literal fashion! A cow tied in a cow shed defecates before the kids enter to drink its milk.

livestock

The owner of a mutated goat is holding the goat in front of the camera. The owner even talks to the goat to look into the camera to which it answers with a bleat.

hills · snow

So adept and sure footed are they on inch-wide cliffs, with thousand foot falls below, that none can beat an Ibex for comfortable walk along the cliffs, munching on dry grasses along the way...

Himachal Pradesh·hills · snow

Across the snow barren cliffs and mountain faces of winter-time Spiti, a herd of Himalayan Ibex looks for dry sedges and grasses, as their modest lean season sustenance.

sport · livestock

This is not natural behaviour for a camel, obviously. It isn't good for the poor animal's psyche or body either...

livestock

See a coin based token vending machine for milk in India - where else in the world would you see such an efficient age-old contraption that has defied the ages, for continued relevance? See people transact for pouches of milk or re-filling…

livestock · farmland

A oat that has particularly long white ears, with a dark body. Rather a pleasingly cute looking forlorn face, too! The goat carouses with its goat farm buddies in a Rajasthan goat farm.

industry · livestock

Indians plant trees to green India: TOI green drive - Who will look after and nurture the trees? Drives are held and thousands of trees are funded, sponsored and planted, but once the crowds have gone, in come and the cows and goats, and wi…

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A funny little goat indeed. See his strange sharp but small teeth and his very long eats! A range of goats exist at this Rajasthani goat farm in India. Goat farming in India.