![]() It’s an antelope, you see, and it has horns, and the horns have swirling teeth like a screw. The addax is also known as the screwhorn antelope, which is a perfect name. Sheep horns tend to be wider and smoother than narrow, knobbly goat horns, and the bharal is in possession of some excellently wide and smooth horns. In the interest of journalism, we spent quite awhile looking at pictures of bharals online and are sad to say that this sheep is not really colored blue. There are a few different types of ibex and nobody’s quite sure whether they’re the same species or not, so please, alpine ibex fans, don’t be upset that the Nubian variety is up here instead.Īccording to reputable sources, the bharal is also known as the Himalayan blue sheep due to a bluish tint to its fur. The Nubian ibex’s gigantic, backward-curling horns are even more impressive when you consider that the ibex uses them to smash into male competitors while on top of scary mountains in North Africa and Arabia. It’s also incredibly endangered read this for more about the plight of the noble, floppy-nosed saiga. Its spiralled horns are a light, dusky pink, with the luster of jade. Its fleshy, shotgun-like nose is used to filter out dust in its habitat and also, we think, to warm cold winter air before it makes its way to the animal’s lungs. Native to the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan, Russia, and sometimes Uzbekistan during migrations, the saiga is a truly absurd-looking and delightful antelope. It’s extremely endangered, with an estimated 2,500 left in the wild in part due to hunting for its absurdly spectacular corkscrewed horns, which can grow to more than five feet long. The markhor, according to ARKive, lives in the mountains of central Asia, adeptly climbing craggy rocks with the grace of North America’s own mountain goat. Now onto the horns! Oh, man, these are good horns. Our thought is, you should only go to parties where the difference between antlers and horns makes for good party conversation. We are aware that this seems like an unnecessarily strict and nerdy distinction, and that the difference between antlers and horns may not make for good party conversation at every party. Deer and relatives of the deer, like the moose, have antlers goats and antelope and relatives of the cow have horns. Horns, on the other hand, are live extensions of the skull, and stay with the animal for life. Antlers are made of dead bone, and are shed and regrown again every year. ![]() It’s not because the moose isn’t a majestic animal with equally majestic head protuberances it’s because the moose has antlers, not horns. First things first: you will not find the noble moose on this list.
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