#0179 · 🦊 mammals
West Caucasian Tur
🇳🇱 Koebantoer ·Capra caucasica
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Екатерина Кропочева · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Dezidor · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Brian Henderson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Chriest · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Ettore Balocchi · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Михаил Кривошеев / Mikhail Krivosheev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Pavanravela · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © Cloudtail the Snow Leopard · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © Brian Henderson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Aliaksandr Mialik · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The West Caucasian tur ( Capra caucasica syn Capra caucasica caucasica ) is a mountain-dwelling goat-antelope found only in the western half of the Caucasus Mountains range.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 282 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1783 (243 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- West Caucasian Tur
- Nederlands
- Koebantoer
- scientific name
- Capra caucasica
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Bovidae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 227
- sightings worldwide
- 282
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1783 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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#0234 📷 10Impala
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LC 🌍 17.3k seen
#0241 📷 10African Buffalo
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NT 🌍 16.2k seen
#0247 📷 7Common Wildebeest
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LC 🌍 13.7k seen
#0253 📷 8Greater Kudu
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42349, Wikidata Q752141, GBIF 2441051, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.