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Chamois

These are beautiful agile creatures a type of goat- antelope, they live in mountainous regions, they have short straight-ish horns which hook backwards at the rear. They have rich coloured brown fur in Summer which turns much lighter in winter. They eat all sorts of vegetation, in summer grass and herbs, in winter conifers and bark. They live for approximately fifteen years on average. Their predators are Great Eagles and brown bears and humans. They live high up in summer up to 3000 ft moving lower down the mountainsides in winter.