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Southern Chamois

Rupicapra pyrenaica

Classification

Family
Bovidae

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. Names Aragonese: sarrio, chizardo Asturian: robecu/robezu Basque: pirinioetako sarrioa Catalan: isard French: izard/isard Galician: rebezo Italian: camoscio dei Pirenei, camoscio appenninico Occitan: isard, sarri Spanish: rebeco, gamuza Subspecies Description Up to 80 cm tall, its summer…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
FranceItalySpain