#0114 · 🦊 mammals

Pyrenean Chamois

🇳🇱 Pyreneese Gems ·Rupicapra pyrenaica

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Oscar Valencoso - Salomé Planas · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Stephane Philizot · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © pasqualina · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © ~ Pil ~ · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Stefano Tito · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Rufus46 · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. © Sara · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © alfonsolaborda · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Pyrenean chamois (French: izard or isard, Spanish: rebeco or gamuza, Catalan: isard, Italian: camoscio, Aragonese: sarrio or chizardo), Rupicapra pyrenaica , is a goat antelope that lives in the Pyrenees, Cantabrian Mountains and Apennine Mountains. It is one of the two species of the genus Rupicapra , the other being the Chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra . It is in the Caprinae subfamily of bovids, along with sheep and goats.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,391iNaturalist 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.
3,391 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1845 (181 years ago).