#0107 · 🦊 mammals

Iberian Ibex

🇳🇱 Iberische Steenbok ·Capra pyrenaica

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Javier Ábalos · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © RaMaOrLi · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Benjamín Núñez González · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © RaMaOrLi · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Alexandre Roux · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © RaMaOrLi · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Alexandre Roux · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The Iberian ibex , Spanish ibex , Spanish wild goat , or Iberian wild goat ( Capra pyrenaica ) is a species of ibex with four subspecies. Of these, two can still be found on the Iberian Peninsula, but the remaining two are now extinct. The Portuguese subspecies became extinct in 1892 and the Pyrenean subspecies became extinct in 2000. An ongoing project to clone to the Pyrenean subspecies resulted in one clone being born alive in January 2009. This is...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,889iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
4,889 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Heinrich Rudolf Schinz in 1838 (188 years ago).