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Chamois Antelope
13
03
2009
 

Chamois Antelope
by josieO

The Chamois, one of the goat like antelopes, is supposed to be one of the surest footage of all animals and certainly there are not many there are it is equally jumping from one jagged pinnacle of rock to another without slipping and tumbling down to death. Hunters have told of seeing Chamois in the Alps standing on a point of rock only about the size of a half-dollar piece, with all 4 feet bunched on that tiny point.

The Chamois lives in the mountains of Europe – in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, and the Alps of Switzerland and in the rugged Carpathians and Caucases. Actually it is not so much of the mountain dwelling creature as we are likely to think, and is more often found in the forged slopes of the mountains than among the barren rocks. It is winter color is chestnut brown, but in spurring it takes a lighter grayer hue. The males, or bucks, weigh from 50 to 70 pounds.

The herds of Chamois are made of fifteen or twenty animals. At daybreak they start feeding but in the middle of the day they seek the shelter of rocks or trees and lie in the shade until dusk. Lichens and the various kinds of low growing plants that live high upon the mountains or their food.

 

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