Uthai Thani Family Gets Surprise Visit from Rare Goat-Antelope

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Uthai Thani Family Gets Surprise Visit from Rare Goat-Antelope

A majestic serow in captivity at the Dusit Zoo n Bangkok in a 2007 photo. Photo: Melanochromis / Wikimedia Commons

UTHAI THANI — While most families must visit a zoo to see a serow, a rare type of goat-antelope, one simply bolted into the bedroom of a home in central Thailand on Thursday night.

Suwanna Puengket said the vulnerable and protected species leapt through the windows of her daughter’s bedroom as she was playing guitar at about 7:30pm on Thursday and wandered around the residence until officials arrived to tranquilize it.

“My daughter and I were very frightened, so we ran outside and shouted for our neighbors to see what the creature was,” Suwanna said. “I thought it was a buffalo.”

Only 1,000 to 1,5000 serows are thought to live in the wild in Thailand.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1448087031

-- Khaosod English 2015-11-21

[maderaroja]

Interesting and attractive animal.

[DennisF]

Majestic looking beast. Lovely

[ggt]

I feel certain this is an ancestor bringing a message to the family...

"Do not marry farangs...or your children may end up looking like me!"

[Gillyflower]

ggt I would rather have my children looking like the animal than some of the farangs I see in Thailand.

[grumpyoldman]

Super great, wonder if the out of key notes had anything to do with it? Neat animal.