Surefooted ungulates

Usage examples of ibexes.

There were the painted heads of seven ibexes, with their enormous horns, all of them facing in the same direction.

And every surface, every tool of bone or wood or stone or ivory, was adorned with images of people, birds, plants, and animals: there were lions, woolly rhinos, mammoth, reindeer, horses, wild cattle, bears, ibexes, a leopard, even an owl.

I may need you to swear that there were no ibexes or orxys or even pronghorn antelope in view, and that I confirmed you didn’t have a hunting rifle with you.

These cloud-bound crags, with their eagles and ibexes and wheeling vultures have, time out of mind — it is said — been the haunt of outlawed and violent men.

Bears, lions, elephants, ibexes, and gazelles are in cages in our zoos.