Budorcas is a genus of bovid that contains a single living species, the takin (Budorcas taxicolor).

Two extinct species are known from the Pliocene, B. teilhardi from China and B. churcheri from Ethiopia.

[2] The presence of the genus in Africa indicates that it was far more widespread in the past.

[3] Budorcas comes from Ancient Greek: βοῦς, romanized: bous, lit.

'ox, cow' and δορκάς, dorkas, 'gazelle'.