Nubian ibex
capra nubiana latin

Mammal species include the Nubian ibex and the rock hyrax.

Nubian ibex are extremely well-adapted to the steep, rocky and mountainous regions that...

These habitats today house Bengal tigers, lions, urials and Nubian ibex.

Nubian ibex in Israel (successful)

One of the most important animals in Mujib is the Nubian ibex, a large mountain goat which became threatened as a result of over-hunting.

Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana)

Fauna in the area includes aardvark, eagle, Ethiopian wolf, gelada, secretarybird, Nubian ibex, and marabou stork.

The reserve launched a project to reintroduce the Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) to the area from Jordan, after it was extinct in the mid-twentieth century.

They are omnivorous, feeding on fruit and invertebrates, and can also be observed grooming Nubian Ibex and domestic livestock for parasites.

According to the Gazetta Eritrea, it was established on 16 March 1959 by the British, specifically to protected the significant populations of Nubian ibex in the area.

Other species found here include the largest wild population of the endangered Arabian gazelle, as well as Nubian ibex, Arabian wolves, honey badgers, and caracals.

This section is home to Chital, Fallow Deer, Scimitar Oryx, Nubian Ibex and Sika Deer.

The many mammals found here include the Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) which was reintroduced to the wild after disappearing, gazelles and the Nubian ibex, a goat antelope .

One of the principal goals of the Protectorate is to preserve the bio-diversity of the fragile eco-system, with an emphasis on the Nubian Ibex and the wild medicinal and aromatic plants.

Recent studies based on mitochondrial DNA suggest the Siberian ibex and the Nubian ibex represent distinct species, which are not very closely related to the physically similar Alpine ibex.

Arabian species such as the scimitar-horned oryx, addax (which is rare in the wild), dama gazelle, giraffes, Nubian ibex, wild goat, barbary sheep and Asiatic onager are also present.

The Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) is a desert-dwelling goat species found in mountainous areas of Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Yemen, and Sudan.

The threatened Nubian Ibex, Syrian Serin, Caracal, and Lesser Kestrel are natives of Wadi Dana and plans to save the species were put forth by Global Environment Fund in 1994.

It is a unique high altitude eco-system with many endemic and rare species, including the world's smallest butterfly (the Sinai Baton Blue butterfly), flocks of shy Nubian Ibex, and hundreds of different plants of medicinal value.

As well as containing 300 species of plants, Wadi Mujib contains at least 10 species of carnivores and other animals, including the Hyrax, Badger, and the Nubian Ibex which was reintroduced into the wild by RSCN.

There were trunks of elephants, tongues of the buffalo and fillets of Nubian mountain goat, the flesh of wild boar and warthog, gazelle and Nubian ibex, of monitor lizard and python, of crocodile and hippopotamus, oxen and sheep.

Yael or Jael (Hebrew Ya'el, יָעֵל, the name of the Nubian Ibex) is a character mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of king Jabin.

Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, determined that some of the skin used for the Dead Sea scrolls came from the Nubian ibex, whose range did not include Jerusalem, but includes the Hermon and Golan heights, the Negev highlands and the western shore of the Dead Sea.

The Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) is a desert-dwelling goat species found in mountainous areas of Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Yemen, and Sudan.