Gorals look like stocky antelopes or goats with short, backward-curved horns, but are not directly related to either group. They have several differences from both groups. There are 4 species of Gorals in different regions of Himalayan South and Southeast Asia. Females live in small groups; older males are solitary. Both have small horns.

Shown is the Central Chinese Goral (N. c. arnouxianus), a subspecies of the Long-tailed Goral native to Amur regions of Russia, China and the Koreas. Like other Gorals, it favours inaccessible rocky mountainsides. (It looks similar to the Chinese or Grey Long-tailed Goral, N. griseus, - see below.)

The Grey Long-tailed or Chinese Goral is native to mountains and high plateaus in much of China but also in other regions of IndoChina and even India. Both male and female have short, curved horns and reach under 80cm high at the shoulder. They are fast and agile over rough terrain and mainly crepuscular. Those shown are moulting their thick winter coats for summer.