Иберийский горный козел: Экология и современное состояние.

Species of wild goat endemic to the Iberian Peninsula
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| name = Iberian ibex
| image = Cabra montés 2. jpg
| image caption = Male C. p. hispanica
| image2 = CapraPyrenaicaHispanicaMontCaro. JPG
| image2 caption = Female C. p. hispanica
| status = LC
| status system = IUCN3.1
| status ref =
| taxon = Capra pyrenaica
| authority = (Schinz, 1838)
| subdivision ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision = Capra pyrenaica hispanica Four subspecies have been described; two are now extinct. The Portuguese ibex became extinct in 1892, and the Pyrenean ibex became extinct in 2000. A project to clone the Pyrenean ibex resulted in one clone being born alive in July 2003, making it the first taxon to become "un extinct", although the clone died several minutes after birth due to physical defects in its lungs.

The Iberian ibex is characterized by its large and flexible hooves and short legs. These physical adaptations allow it to run and leap on bare, rocky, rough and steep slopes out of reach of potential predators. The horns of the Iberian ibex curve out and up and then back, inward, and, depending on subspecies, either up again or down. The annual horn growth is influenced principally by age but can also be contributed by environmental factors and the growth made in the previous year. as well a small reintroduced population in the French Pyrenees. It has been extirpated from Gibraltar and possibly Andorra. Foraging in ibexes is also different depending on the season. When food resources are low during the winter, ibexes would reduce their rates of movement when foraging. However, during the spring season, when food is more available, they would increase their rate of movement and become more mobile in finding food. This would be the ideal trend of movement since the spring season is more abundant in food resources meaning that there is more competition for food resources forcing some to trek farther in order to obtain food.

Iberian ibex establish two types of social groups: male only groups and females with young juvenile groups. Mixed groups are also common during the rest of the winter. During the birth season, the yearling are separated from the female groups at the time of the new births. The males are the first to separate and return to their male only groups while the female yearlings eventually return to their mothers and spend their next few years with the group. The ibex usually flees in a very coordinated fashion that is led by an experienced adult female in female juvenile groups and an experienced male in male only groups. the animal version of human scabies. This disease, potentially fatal for infected individuals, unequally affects males and females and it limits the reproductive investment of individuals. The disease has become the main destabilizing factor in many populations of Iberian ibex.