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BBC Wildlife
|July 2022
Roaming the crags and sheer slopes of Western Europe's highest mountain range, the Alpine ibex is now thriving again having come perilously close to extinction
Cloud cover
A lone male ibex (known as a bouquetin in French-speaking regions of the Alps) stands sentinel above the clouds cloaking Lake Geneva in France's Haute-Savoie region. On this December dawn, at the peak of the mating season, he's on the lookout for females - hoping that at least one will be impressed by his hefty horns.
High and wild
A magnificent male grazes among shattered rocks beneath the Mont Blanc massif in south-west Switzerland. Living at altitudes up to 3,300m in summer across their Alpine range, these large goats - a big male can top 100kg at his pre-winter peak - prefer south-facing slopes and ridges.
Social climber
An ibex scales a stratified cliff-face in Haute-Savoie to join a cluster of females with kids above her; in summer, ibex form same-sex groups comprising several dozen individuals.
Horns of plenty
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