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094 Wild female Alpine Ibex at Creux du Van (crop) Photo by Giles Laurent🐃

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Alpine ibex

Capra ibex Linnaeus, 1758

アイベックス（学名: Capra ibex）は、ヤギ属に属する哺乳類の一種。主にアルプス山脈に生息する。日本では、アルプスアイベックス（英: Alpine ibex）とも表記される。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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Also called
Capra ibex, Ibex
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
77 kg
Body length
1.7 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Alpine ibex

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
77 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 83 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.7 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 21 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
8.1 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.3 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
169 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 169 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
77 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Alpine ibex yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyBovidae
  6. ›genusCapra
  7. ›speciesCapra ibex
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. familyBovidae
  4. subfamilyCaprinae
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderRuminantia
  13. infraorderPecora
  14. familyBovidae
  15. subfamilyCaprinae
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More about the Alpine ibex

Closest relative on this site
🐐 Goat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 2.2 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Alpen-Steinbock (de), Capra ibex (es), bouquetin des Alpes (fr), алпийски козирог (bg), cabra dels Alps (ca), kozorožec horský (cs) … and 26 more languages
More photos
094 Wild female Alpine Ibex at Creux du Van (crop) Photo by Giles Laurent046 Male Alpine ibexes fighting during mating season in Grammont Photo by Giles Laurent
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