Near ThreatenedSiberian Ibex
Capra sibirica
14 countries13 parks
Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 3 species of ibex, in the family Bovidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 3.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
2 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 30 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The largest wild goat, and the snow leopard's main prey.
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It is the longest and heaviest member of the genus Capra, although the markhor exceeds it in shoulder height.
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Its horns are the largest in the genus: the male's measure from 100 to 148 cm, while the female's do not exceed 38.
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It survives in one of the driest habitats any wild goat occupies.
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It has appeared in the petroglyphs of the Negev desert and of Arabia for thousands of years, and is one of the most frequently depicted animals in Near Eastern rock art.
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The males fight by rearing up on their hind legs and dropping forward with their full weight onto their horns, a clash that carries hundreds of metres between the canyon walls.
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The entire species lives essentially in a single national park, that of the Simien Mountains: it is one of the mammals with the smallest range on the African continent.
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It moves along ledges barely a few centimetres wide above drops of hundreds of metres, and the kids start following their mothers along those ledges within days of being born.
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