A bizarre unidentified ungulate

Looks like a Bison calf.

A bovid of some sort. Bison, yak, musk ox, takin?

Given how you've mentioned takin before at the zoo you visited, I think this one's a takin calf.

I think it is a (?)juvenile takin too. The 'extra' hooves at the backside of its legs give it away.

I was going to guess takin before I saw the other comments, so I'll go for takin as well.

Takin away the moments that make up a dull day....
(apologies to Pink Floyd)

Artiodactyl anyway. Ruminant, to be precise... yes, has to be a bovid.

<bursts with pride>

Couldn't say. But Bizarre Unidentified Ungulate is a great band name...

A ropen in a cow suit!

Yep, gotta be a takin of some sort.

I'll go even further and guess a Golden Takin calf. The Bhutan takin calves have darker legs.

http://www.redriverzoo.org/images/animals/baby.takin.1.jpg

As I know what photo that's from I won't give it away....

Mishmi takin :)

is it a baby gorgonopsian

in a furry suit?

Hmm, is it a Wisent Calf?

I would've said baby buffalo, but I would've been WRONG.
NJ is right though: "Hey BUU is coming to town this weekend, wanna come?"

On second thought, maybe it's an albino squirrel.

I'm with the majority here -- Budorcas taxicolor. Wouldn't wager on the subspecies, but clearly it is immature.

Baird's beaked whale?

I'm gonna say musk ox.

Very small pebbles!

/Sorry, wrong sketch.

juvenile takin (Budorcas taxicolor) ?
Tahr? Musk ox?

Darn it, I'm pretty sure I know this one -- takin. But I'm only about the 25th person to guess that, so my glory is somewhat diminished.

Because I definitely recognize takin booty when I see it. Can't explain why -- it's a very very long story about a long cold night in the Eastern Himilayas, with far too little company and far too much to drink. Never mind.

A bison-like object.

Not that I could tell why, but this post has been at least the 4th most active ScienceBlogs post for hours! Looks like Tet Zoo has a lot of regular readers now.

I'm going to say a takin, based on the number of other commenters who have also guessed that.

Stewart

Bison calf was my first thought.

Definitely not iguanian this time...

I guess the prize for identifying the youngster has been takin.

European bison calf?

I was going to guess bison calf or takin calf, but I've come far too late for that, judging by the comments. Humph.

An ordinary house cat, deceptively photographed.

(One of these days, that's going to be the right answer.)

Speaking of bizarre unidentified ungulates, does anybody who reads here know anything about Ovis longipes? I have never seen anything sheepish that had horns like that. Was it a breed of O. aries that died out? A localized species ditto? Has anybody ever found horns of that shape in Old Kingdom digs or were they an artistic convention? (And were they really horizontal corkscrews, or wavy, or straight?)

Link with illustrations of the horns: http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/khnum.html

Your other favorite pet? I almost said a baby burro, just to be different.

Jenny Islander: Regarding the corkscrew horns, see the lesser and greater kudu antelope, whose horns, as well as horns of rams, are used to make shoffar trumpets (Jericho style). Note the similar sound of kudu and khnum/khufu. Various hunting bands in Africa (Khoisan) trade these long twisted horns to Arab/Yemeni traders, who modify them and sell them to folks in the middle east, often with tales of horn straightening, scraping and recurving.

It looks like a baby capybara (rodentia)

http://nucleodecenio.blogspot.com

am I the only one who noticed the white stuff on its tail?