A mountain goat with no second home
The Nilgiri Tahr, Nilgiritragus hylocrius, occupies roughly 400 square kilometres of montane grassland called sholas, scattered across the upper Western Ghats between Tamil Nadu and Kerala. No other wild population exists anywhere else on the planet. Unlike the Himalayan Tahr or the Arabian Tahr, which are separate species spread across broader ranges, the Nilgiri Tahr's entire species range fits inside a region smaller than many Indian districts. That is the biological fact that defines everything about its survival odds.
