Pyrenean Chamois
Rupicapra pyrenaica
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,671
- Most observed in
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica) is a goat-antelope that lives in the Pyrenees and Cantabrian Mountains of Spain, France and Andorra, and the Apennine Mountains of central Italy. It is one of the two species of the genus Rupicapra, the other being the chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Pyrenean chamois”.