the withers-height of the mane-jumper amounts until 100 cm, its weight for 140 kg. This type resembles both the goats and the sheep. The shape is ibex-good. The back falls easily to the croup from. The fur is smooth and short in the summer, in the winter longer. The color of the hair-dress is isabellbraun. From the throat to the breast and cuff-nicely about the front-legs the mane-good Behang extends, that earned this type the name. With the buck, the mane is especially well developed.
The horns touch in the vertex and form a blunt corner together. its form is similar like with the blue-sheep and with the Asian Tur. The females have the weaker horns.
Habitat and spread Rocky mountains and downs in desert-areas of the northern Africa are the habitat of the mane-jumpers.
Way of life Mane-jumpers hike in herds, that consist of several females and their kids. The bucks live individually and in bachelor-herds. Against end of the dry-time, several troops unite. Mane-jumpers are on the way in the morning and in the evening. During the day, they rest under rock-pre-jumps and at other shadow-places. they climb turned and certainly at this the most steeply hillsides. On its search of water, they use, change decided. Mane-jumpers like to wallow in moist sand. They scratch on that occasion in lying with the horns in the underground and throw the mud a jerk of the horns for itself over the back.
its voice is a grunt-tone, young bleat. As an enemy, leopards, desert-lynxes and jackals in consideration, come.
Reproduction The combination-time is in October / November. The males fight together by loose-running like sheep-bucks one on top of the other and clashing with the horns. Other action-manners are the Hakeln with the horns with parallel standing males or the attempt, with help a, to depress this over the backs of the opponent of grasping horn. Brünftige bucks work out the tail highly and spread a Brunftgeruch.
The Tragzeit lasts 150-165 days. 1, 2 becomes in a throw or placed 3 kids as an exception. After tossing, 1-2 days with the offspring withdraws the mother for itself. In the age of one week, the kids eat already the first grass. In the 2. Mane-jumpers are year of life reproductive-capable.
Endangering Mane-jumpers already are out wiped in some parts of its spread-area, in other sharing strongly endangers.
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