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Capra ibex
Female Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex) or Steinbock, Alpensteinbock, with juvenile (Kitz), Niederhorn, Berner Oberland, Kanton of Berne, Switzerland. The Alpine ibex is certainly our most impressive wild goat. In the 19th century it was exstinct in Switzerland, but we have introduced them again in the Alps by steeling 6 of them from the Italiens and reinstalled them in the Swiss Alps.
Mountain area in the Swiss Alps
Spotted on Aug 8, 2016
Submitted on May 21, 2017
11 Comments
congrate for your
work
Thanks, my friends!
my cousins live in switzerland! oh, by the way, good find!<3<3<3<3<3!!!!
nice find
nice
Big congrats on your SOTD.
Can't wait for you to share it :-)
Thanks Antonio and Daniele. Did not even know that there is such a day. I HAD my day yesterday with a spotting I dreamed of since 45 years!
Awesome series Dominique ,perfect to the occasion,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Today is International Ungulate Day, and this great spotting of a female Alpine Ibex and her kid is our Spotting of the Day! Congratulations bayucca!
"Today is International Ungulate Day! Learn about ungulates with our Spotting of the Day, a female Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex) and her kid. The taxonomy of ungulates (hoofed animals) used to be rather complex and now exists in a simplified version with two groups: the order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates), and the order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates). Caprines (goats) such as the ibex are even-toed ungulates. The Alpine Ibex had at one point been almost hunted down, and was restricted to the Gran Paradiso National Park in northern Italy, and the Maurienne Valley in Fance. Reintroduced in recent years it has recolonized most of the European Alps".
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