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The species which symbolizes his mountain home isn’t the snow leopard, Tibetan wolf, or any of the iconic animals of Ladakh. Although the arid plateau is home to seven other species of ungulates, a little-known wild sheep called the urial has wormed its way into the researcher’s heart.  Despite growing up in Kashmir, Khanyari didn’t know of the urial until after he had set out to become a researcher. While conducting a survey of blue sheep, he came upon a skull that looked different. A shepherd identified it as shapu, a local name for the urial. It wasn’t a surprise that herders knew the species. Through the course of their workday, they kept tabs on the urial herds in their meadows.  An intrigued Khanyari spent eight days looking for the species without success, and on the ninth day, he was rewarded by the sight of 200 urials. He described the beauty of the animal’s rich russet coat glinting in the light. The distant purple mountains offered a breathtaking backdrop. “Other mountain ungulates are a drab greyish white, the better to blend with their surroundings,” he says. “But the urial’s magnificence blew my mind. From a distance, when you see them running, they flow like the river with an ebb and flow. The veteran biologist George Schaller had termed all the wild goats, sheep, and antelopes of the high elevations as ‘Mountain Monarchs’, but to Khanyari, the urial, in particular, epitomized the term.