Near ThreatenedBezoar
Capra aegagrus
12 countries4 parks
Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 5 species of goat, in the family Bovidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 5.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 23 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The name bezoar ibex comes from bezoars, concretions of hair and plant fibre that form in its stomach and that were sold in Europe for centuries as a universal antidote to poison.
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The Cretan populations, known as kri-kri, are probably descended from domestic animals taken to the island thousands of years ago that later went feral.
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Every ibex in the Alps today descends from a relict core of about 100 animals.
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It can leap and follow its mother from its first day of life.
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It is markedly sexually dimorphic: males can weigh more than three times as much as females.
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It has recovered in areas such as Sierra Nevada and Cazorla-Segura.
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It grazes and browses a wide range of mountain plants.
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It lives in mountain country above 800 m with rocky outcrops in the Iberian Peninsula.
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