How To Use Ibex In A Sentence
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Buccinum vibex, buccinum trivittatum and obsoletum are associated with the preceding species.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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Using moves that would make any rock climber jealous, Alpine ibex cling to a near-vertical rock face of a northern Italian dam in summer 2010.
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I like this coat of arms that has a half an ibex on it.
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At the top is an Ovis Amman, then two markhoors (wild goats), an ibex, and two Tibetan antelope.
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The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat.
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It is not the only species of ibex neither," continued he, "for there is one found in the European Alps, known by the name of ` steinboc; 'another, in the Pyrenees, called the ` tur;' a third, in the Caucasus, the ` zac; 'and one or two others in the mountains of Africa.
The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
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Planet-x.com.au » links for 2008-11-02
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Nature lovers take note, the area is home to the grey wolf, Blandford's fox, the sand cat and the ibex, as well as 110 recorded species of birds.
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Low, rugged mountains criss-cross the desert and are home to argali sheep and Siberian ibex.
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The park is the refuge of extremely rare species such as the Walia ibex, Simien wolf and the gelada baboon.
Simen National Park, Ethiopia
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The pashmina wool obtained from the neck and underbelly of the ibex living in Ladakh and the Tibetian plateaux is much sought after for weaving classic soft shawls, and the animals are not killed for their wool.
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Here, children learn how ancient artists used natural pigments such as ground earth to render their ‘cave paintings’ of bison, deer, ibex and more.
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One would like to know whether there was any connection between the frequent representations of moufflon and ibex on the one hand and of female figurines on the other.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Buccinum vibex, buccinum trivittatum and obsoletum are associated with the preceding species.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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She was the last living Pyrenean ibex, a subspecies of wild mountain goat, which thereupon became extinct.
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He left the young man to admire the ibex head that was mounted above the hall clock.
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Large troops of gelada baboons roam through the park and graceful Walia Ibex lord over the loftier spots.
Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world
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In high mountainous areas of Europe and the near East, the most important prey animal for hunters is typically a goat, ibex or chamois (in the lower forested areas, it is often a deer).
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Olson said some Dukha have told him that ibex and argali sheep have both disappeared within the last 15 years since the arrival of Chinese traders who traffic in animal parts.
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And most of these animals are grass-eaters (herbivores): horses, bison, deer, reindeer and ibex.
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The strange script included drawings of camels, horses, donkeys and ibex.
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Shoshone nation. our hunters joined us with 2 deer in tolerable order. on the Side of the Hill near the place we dined Saw a gange of Ibex or big horn Animals I Shot at them running and missed.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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The sites are natural bearded vulture habitat: high, rocky cliffs where the birds nest and roost, above open valleys populated with wild grazing animals such as chamois, red deer or ibexes.
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The chamois is becoming rare, and the ibex or steinbock, once common in all the high Alps, is now believed to be confined to the Cogne mountains in Piedmont, between the valleys of the Dora Baltea and the Orco, though it is said that a few still linger about the Grandes Jorasses near Cormayeur.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
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Before the 20th century the region was home to several different species of gazelle, wild asses, hartebeests, oryxes, ibexes, dorcas and onagers.
Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps | Impact Lab
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The competition of livestock for wild animal grazing and the public's limited respect for wildlife are major threats: ibex, Pallas's cat (manul) and bobak marmot are especially targeted.
Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
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Favorite Tuvinian dishes feature heavy-antlered Siberian elk and Siberian ibex, among the largest of mountain goats.
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Studies have been made of Walia ibex, habitat conservation, and the ecology of gelada baboon.
Simen National Park, Ethiopia
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There are also Siberian ibex Capra ibex sibirica, and musk deer Moschus moschiferus (VU), Pallas's cat (manul) Otocolobus manul, Mongolian (bobak) marmot Marmota sibirica, Altai snow-cock Tetraogallus altaiacus, bearded and black vultures Gypaetus barbatus and Aegypius monarchus.
Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
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They include markhor (Capra falconeri), ibex (Capra ibex), and urial (Ovis orientalis).
Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
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On Lammergeiers, Berridge (1934) wrote ‘A favourite method of dealing with [ibex and chamois] is to swoop down suddenly upon a prospective victim that may be poised somewhat insecurely upon the steep hillside, so that the startled beast loses its foot-hold, and goes tumbling to death in the ravine below’ (p. 219).
Archive 2006-01-01
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In that same year, the last Syrian desert ostrich died, steeling a Rooseveltian determination to prevent other endangered species like the oryx and the Nubian ibex from meeting the same fate.
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Trophy hunting for markhor, ibex, snow leopard, and game birds (such as falcons) is prevalent in this ecoregion and has decimated their populations.
Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
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A hunter who killed a hundred ibex was a legend long after he died.
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The tahr is a fine-looking beast, although his horns are small, and he cannot compare with his majestic relatives, the ibex and the markhor.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Excavations at the cave have yielded Mousterian tools, a type traditionally associated with European Neandertals, and ibex bones.
The Last Neandertals
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The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat.
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The walia ibex exist only in or near the miniature Simen Mountains National Park.
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Our initial assessment is that this is a figure of a male ibex, and its style suggests a date of 12,500-12,000 years ago.
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The park is the refuge for threatened animals such as gelada baboon, Simen fox and Walia ibex, a goat species endemic to Simen Mountains.
Simen National Park, Ethiopia
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Looking up the gorge wall, I suddenly spotted an ibex nibbling at early spring shoots.
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Fat of lion, fat of hippo, fat of cat, fat of crocodile, fat of ibex, fat of serpent, are mixed together and the head of the bald person is anointed with them.
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Most of the panels include motifs of animals, principally aurochs, horse, ibex, and red deer.
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Like the baboons, the ibex had somehow learned to defy the odds.
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A variety of Ethiopian endemics can be found, including the critically endangered Walia ibex (Capra walie) and endangered mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni).
Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands
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There are a number of endemic subspecies found in this ecoregion including the Gredos ibex (Capra pyrenaica victoriae) and a number of herpetofauna species, Lacerta monticola cyreni, Salamandra salamandra almanzorensis, and Bufo bufo gredosicola.
Iberian conifer forests
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Klipspringers and common jackals are also a regular sight on the plateau, and with luck you may even spot Walia ibex expertly balancing on the vertiginous rock ledges.
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No existing model can explain the ribbon, he adds, which was found independently by two instruments on IBEX.
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This is also in accord with beliefs concerning a white ibex or deer in the Caucasus Mountains, although these concern the animal's meat or milk rather than its horn.
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And then we rounded a corner and there was a male ibex nibbling on a tuft of grass, throwing his horns back every now and then as if troubled by a gigantic and very heavy quiff.
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The competition of livestock for wild animal grazing and the public's limited respect for wildlife are major threats: ibex, Pallas's cat (manul) and bobak marmot are especially targeted.
Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
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She says deer, elk, Nubian ibex, antelope, bison and yak are particular favourites for canned hunters.
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On the same jar, a drawing of a stylized tree with two grazing ibexes probably represents the goddess.
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If you are lucky you may see an ibex, or wild mountain goat.
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Once the natural predators of the Capra Ibex where the wolf, the bear and in Africa the lynx, today the Royal Eagle remain its only predator which eats the most fragile examples.
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Forests are more than trees, of course, and along with its timber Afghanistan is at risk of losing its wolves, snow leopards, bears, and foxes, as well as alpine ruminants like Marco Polo sheep and ibex.
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The archaeologists last week unearthed engravings of a bison, another ibex, part of a horse and some triangular shapes.
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Large troops of gelada baboons roam through the park and graceful Walia Ibex lord over the loftier spots.
Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world
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We dissuade any lady from touching or going near a zebra's mouth, or the horns of an ibex or an algazel, or the pointed bill of a heron or stork, or from putting her hand near this fine painted pig.
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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Most of the panels include motifs of animals, principally aurochs, horse, ibex, and red deer.
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The engraving may represent a rare sighting of an ibex that had strayed from south-west Europe.
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Their instinct comes direct from God and guides them to help themselves in parturition; the very time when the herdsman is most anxious for his herds. wild goats -- ibex (Ps 104: 18; 1Sa 24: 2). hinds -- fawns; most timid and defenseless animals, yet cared for by God.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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My favourite animal was the ibex, which appears in a number of cheeky incarnations throughout the chamber.
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In similar experiments, scientists in Spain have produced live ibex kids from ibex embryos implanted and gestated in domestic goats.
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A line engraving of an ibex - a type of deer - resembles cave art found at the world-famous Lascaux and Chauvet sites in France and Spain.
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The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat.
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For three weeks passengers will be whooshed at 1,000 miles per hour through the African skies, deplaning to take in the lions and ibex in the Serengeti and to bob under the spray of Victoria Falls.
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Grouped together in two or three cases, are the sable and other antelopes from the Cape of Good Hope; the algazelle, and the addax and its young from North Africa; the sing-sing, and the koba from Western Africa; the sassaybi; the chamois of the Alps -- the subject of many a stirring mountain song; the goats of North Africa; the strange Siberian ibex; the grue and gorgon from the Cape; varieties of the domestic goat, and the beautiful Cashmere goat.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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Once the natural predators of the Capra Ibex where the wolf, the bear and in Africa the lynx, today the Royal Eagle remain its only predator which eats the most fragile examples.
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Ross et al. subdivided the overlying Ordovician Ibexian Series into four stages, the lowest of which is the Skullrockian Stage.
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There are also Siberian ibex Capra ibex sibirica, and musk deer Moschus moschiferus (VU), Pallas's cat (manul) Otocolobus manul, Mongolian (bobak) marmot Marmota sibirica, Altai snow-cock Tetraogallus altaiacus, bearded and black vultures Gypaetus barbatus and Aegypius monarchus.
Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer satellite, or IBEX, discovered the narrow ribbon, which completes nearly a full circle across the sky.
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Most numerous are ibex, of which there are twelve carvings, followed by horses, aurochs and other bovines, deer, and mammoths.
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Low, rugged mountains criss-cross the desert and are home to argali sheep and Siberian ibex.
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They almost pride themselves of not being able to tell a larch from a fir, a roe buck from an ibex.
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That the ibex are not killed for their wool would make a valuable statement.
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Tour archaeological sites in Jerusalem and Masada, hike through desert canyons to see hyrax and ibex.
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the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.