Editing Tahr (section)

==Ranges==
While the Arabian tahr of [[Oman]] and the Nilgiri tahr of [[South India]] both have small ranges and are considered [[Endangered species|endangered]], the Himalayan tahr remains relatively widespread in the [[Himalayas]], and has been [[Introduced species|introduced]] to the [[Southern Alps of New Zealand]], where it is hunted recreationally.  Also, a population exists on [[Table Mountain]] in [[South Africa]], descended from a pair of tahrs that escaped from a zoo in 1936,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/09/0928_tahrs.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011004084911/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/09/0928_tahrs.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 4, 2001 | title=Time Running Out for Exotic Tahrs in Cape Town | work=National Geographic News | date=September 28, 2001 | access-date=April 17, 2014 | author=Irwin, Ron}}</ref> but most of these have been culled.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/mountain-rangers-braai-tahr-1.1029020 | title=Mountain rangers braai tahr | work=[[Independent Online (South Africa)|IOL]] News | date=February 19, 2011 | access-date=April 17, 2014 | author=Bamford, Helen}}</ref> As for the Nilgiri tahr, research indicates its presence to be in the mountain ranges of southern India. Totalling ~1400 individuals in 1998, its largest remaining population appears to survive between the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, where it may be vulnerable to poachers and illegal hunting.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mishra |first1=Charudutt |last2=Johnsingh |first2=A. J. T |date=1998-11-01 |title=Population and conservation status of the Nilgiri tahr Hemitragus hylocrius in Anamalai Hills, south India |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320798000044 |journal=Biological Conservation |language=en |volume=86 |issue=2 |pages=199–206 |doi=10.1016/S0006-3207(98)00004-4 |bibcode=1998BCons..86..199M |issn=0006-3207}}</ref>