Ibex Facts



Ibexes are wild goats found on high mountain meadows, slopes and rocks of Europe, northeastern Africa and Asia.Their forelegs are slighter shorter than hind legs with a height of three feet at the shoulder. each sexes have horns that curve backwards from the forehead. throughout the winter, their fur is yellowish brown whereas within the summer their fur turns to ashy gray. 

Ibexes live apart in little flocks most of the time however throughout mating season they'll combine off. they're extraordinarily agile, ready to survive in cliffs and crags. they're known to leap up to lengths as so much as forty feet. they're herbivores and eat no matter inexperienced vegetation is found in their sparse landscape.

Ibexes became endangered thanks to the excessive looking by man for game and sport. Hunters contemplate it a feat to be ready to reach the inaccessible habitat within which they live in and kill the Ibexes as 'souvenirs'.    The Alpine Ibex has become terribly rare and are protected underneath the Italian government. they need been introduced to varied elements of the planet appropriate for his or her living to extend their numbers.

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