How to Use ibex in a Sentence
ibex
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Prey like the ibex and gazelle are bouncing back in Dhofar.
— Thomas Page, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022 -
Other motifs found on the sandals range from a pair of cats to an ibex and a rosette.
— Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2020 -
Spend the next day hiking among bands of Gelada monkeys and rare Walia ibex.
— Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017 -
The presence of ibex, a species of mountain goat, bodes well for a snow leopard sighting.
— Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020 -
Nearly half the stomach contents were identified as the body fat of an ibex, a wild goat that still lives in the Alps.
— Washington Post, 13 July 2018 -
Their prefered targets are the blue sheep (bharal) of Tibet and the Himalaya and the mountain ibex, which is found over most of the rest of their range.
— National Geographic, 16 June 2020 -
A look at his stomach contents in 2011 showed that the ice man’s last meal consisted of cooked grain and meat from an ibex, a type of wild goat.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017 -
Around the man’s neck was a heavy band of twisted gold decorated with a frieze of panthers, ibex, camels and other beasts.
— George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2013 -
The researchers’ first step was to use the DNA sequences to identify the species of animals—goats, sheep, ibex or cows—whose skin was used to make the parchment.
— Josie Glausiusz, Scientific American, 2 June 2020 -
Diet and hunting Snow leopards prey upon the blue sheep (bharal) of Tibet and the Himalayas, as well as the mountain ibex found over most of the rest of their range.
— National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020 -
There were also images of an ibex with two heads, or a bull drawing superimposed over the drawing of a deer.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2022 -
Riding horses past sacsaoul bushes, black-tailed gazelle and ibex.
— Ann Abel, Forbes, 6 June 2022 -
Rugged and well-suited to varied terrain, wild goats evolved from the bezoar ibex and proved amenable to early herding and breeding efforts.
— Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022 -
That same year, 15 ibex, of an eventual total release of 73, were introduced in the Floridas.
— Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2018 -
To demonstrate his case for instinct, Marcus showed a slide of baby ibexes descending a cliff.
— Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 24 May 2018 -
Overhead, griffon vultures and golden eagles circle the Alpine peaks, where rare ibex and pudgy marmots scurry among brown bears and wolves.
— National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2019 -
Until the late 1980s, the desolate, hilly chunk of desert was empty save for military bases, roaming herds of ibex and a few settlements of nomadic Bedouins.
— Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2020 -
Known for his game dishes including ibex and chamois, Violier was an avid hunter.
— Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 2 Feb. 2016 -
Their multi-pronged approach allowed the scientists to identify the meat as wild game, red deer and ibex, with a high degree of certainty.
— Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2021 -
This is one of the last true high Alpine wildernesses in Europe, home to rare wildlife including ibex, mountain hares, black vultures and golden eagles.
— Sam Haddad, 1843, 26 Feb. 2020 -
Veterinary staff traced the source of their infection to an MCF virus that was being carried asymptomatically in the ibex.
— CBS News, 22 Dec. 2017 -
For the elusive snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan, a satisfying meal consists of an ibex or an argali.
— National Geographic, 15 June 2016 -
For the elusive snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan, a satisfying meal consists of an ibex or an argali.
— National Geographic, 15 June 2016 -
But with the decline of these prey species, the cats have begun to rely on mountain prey that may be more liminal to their regular diet such as Persian ibex and urials, a type of wild sheep.
— Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017 -
But with the decline of these prey species, the cats have begun to rely on mountain prey that may be more liminal to their regular diet such as Persian ibex and urials, a type of wild sheep.
— Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017 -
In a metagenomic analysis of the samples, Maixner and his colleagues confirmed this by finding segments of DNA belonging to red deer and ibex.
— Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 13 July 2018 -
Watching this ibex scale a dam is both fascinating and extremely stressful.
— Aj Willingham, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020 -
Decades ago, conservationists moved some ibexes, a type of wild goat, from the Middle East to mate with a dwindling population in what was then Czechoslovakia.
— Steph Yin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018 -
Iron age petroglyphs of the animals are etched across their habitat range in central and southern Asia, including one in Kyrgyzstan that appears to show nomads using a tame snow leopard to hunt ibex.
— Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 27 July 2022 -
Most animals depicted in cave art are the herbivores our ancestors hunted: deer, bison, mammoths and ibex.
— Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
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