IUCN/SSC - Caprinae Specialist Group
A photographic collection of the world's Caprinae
(If you have good pictures of missing species or subspecies, please send a jpeg version to Marco.Festa-Bianchet@USherbrooke.ca )
*** Common and scientific names are as suggested by who submitted the pictures ***
Wild Goats
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Chiltan goats in Hazarganji- Chiltan
National Park, Balochistan Pakistan Photo supplied by Amjad Virk |
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Photo supplied by Nausherwan Ahmed |
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Flared-horned Markhor (Capra
falconeri) from Chitral Gol, Pakistan Photo supplied by Nausherwan Ahmed |
| Captive Tadjik markhor (Capra
falconeri heptneri) Photo by K. Kutunidsz, supplied by David Shackleton |
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Sind Wild Goat (Capra hircus
Aegagrus) from Kirthar National Park,
Pakistan. Photos supplied by Nausherwan Ahmed |
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Asiatic ibex (Capra ibex sibirica,
or possibly Capra sibirica), in Spiti, India:
rutting group and adult female Photos by Yash Veer Bhatnagar |
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A captive group of Nubian ibex in
Jordan (Capra ibex nubiana or possibly Capra nubiana) Photo by Lee Harding |
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Alpine ibex (Capra ibex ibex) in the Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy Photo by Marco Festa-Bianchet |
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Nubian ibex in Israel (Capra ibex nubiana) (or possibly Capra nubiana) Photo supplied by Brock Fenton |
| Asiatic ibex (Capra ibex sibirica,
or possibly Capra sibirica), in Dornogobi Aimag,
Mongolia Photo by Rich Reading |
| Adult male Asiatic ibex (Capra
ibex sibirica, or possibly Capra sibirica),
in Mongolia, in summer coat. Photo by Rich Harris
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| East Caucasian tur, Capra
cylindricornis photos by Irakli Matcharashvili A 5-year-old male from the Kazbegi Region in the Great Caucasus, now at the Tbilisi Zoo, and a 4-months-old male from the Arkhoti region, near the river Assa |
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Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius
) in Eravikulam National Park, Munnar, Kerala, India. Adult female and lamb. Photos by M. Balan (see www.keralapictures.com) |
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