the game-goat is with a shoulder-height of 70-100 cm and a weight of 25-40 kg powerfully built; it has accordingly stocky legs and a short tail. A showy beard is behind the chin of the buck. The Gehörn of the adult buck grows in the bow to the back. The horns yield outside at first and at the end again somewhat inside from the skull-longitudinal-axis from. On its front-edge, the horn carries Querwülste.
Coloring The fur-color is reddish dun, across the backs, a black eel-line runs. From the shoulder, a black bandage proceeds to the breast and the neck-forefront. Is stomach and inside of the thighs knows. Between the color of the upper side and the stomach-coloring, a black hyphen proceeds. The legs carry a black drawing.
Spread Bezoarziegen live in Asia Minor, in eastern Turkey, in the Iran and farther eastward until Afghanistan and Pakistan. After north, its spread is enough as far as in the Kaukasus. In Europe, they populate some islands of the Aegean sea, Z. B. Crete and Eremomilos near Milos. On Europe's mainland, Bezoarziegen are not to be proved, also not fossil. "Wild goats", the dissimilar isle lives in, neglected house-goats are.
Habitat Bezoarziegen live in high mountain regions. In the summer, the bucks climb as far as at the snow line. Goats and young are above the timberline and retreat into the forest-region at night. In the winter, the goats look for deeper situations and come down as far as on sea level-height here and there.
Way of life Bezoarziegen form herds of 40-50 animals. During the summer, adult bucks part with these herds and visits bigger heights. In the combination-time, these associations dissolve. Then, Brunftrudel refine.
Bezoarziegen are excellent climbers and jumpers. In the rock-regions, they move with biggest certainty. Adult animals look for overlooks, that make the gaze on the surroundings possible for them, for itself. Like a sentry, they linger at such places and warn the herd when drawing near of a danger. Well-developed is with the Bezoarziegen face, hearing, and sense of smell. For hunters, they are a difficult to attain loot.
Enemies The enemies of the Bezoarziegen are lynx, Persian leopard and this in the largest part of the spread-area of wiped out lions and tigers meanwhile. Stone-eagles and other big gripping-birds sometimes carry off young.
Reproduction The Brunft of the Bezoarziege takes place in the winter. The bucks execute Brunftkämpfe. They rise on that occasion on the hind legs, hold the head diagonally, warp forward and crash together with cruised horns. Something else rarely is met at a collision than the opposing horns. The horns often carry the tracks of many duels.
1 or 2 becomes after approximately 150 days of Tragzeit, more rarely 3 kids placed. The newborn goats immediately follow the mother, they therefore are "successors." After a few days, mother and child of a herd join.
Endangering In sharing of its spread-area, Bezoarziegen of the extermination draw near. The reason for it is the excessive Bejagung. Meat, fur and horns are a sought-after loot. Furthermore, one seeks to attain the Bezoare. Bezoare, to which our game-goat owes its name, are globular stomach-stones in the size of a tennis ball. The Bezoare refine from indigestible substances, especially hair, that stick together to a ball, in the stomach and stone-hard becomes. The people-medicine and imputed these structures wonderful cure-strengths and similar humbug the superstitions. That turned many game-goats and also ibexes into the undoing.
On the other hand, there is still in wide areas of Near east, even if in the comparison to earlier small, continuances of the Bezoarziege.
The rescue of the Kretischen Bezoarziege, the Agrimi of the Kreter, has been tried for years. A remainder lasted in Crete's west in the mountains of Lefka Ori, and the Greek government is very much solicitous about the protection of this continuance.
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