The Ibex has been known to turn on the incautious huntsman, and tumble him down the precipice, unless he has time to lie down, and let the animal pass over him.
The ibex is almost exactly the same as the European animal of that name.
As soon as I got well, I started off for the real mountains, hoping especially to get ibex and markhoor.
Soon after this I began to suffer from fever, and I had to work very hard indeed, as I was now on theibex ground.
Until noon I saw nothing; then several flocks ofibex came in sight, one of them of eleven big bucks.
There are few animals, if any, that excel the ibex in endurance and agility.
As the ibex kept its ground, without showing any signs of retreating, or even moving a muscle of its body, they remained watching it.
It ceased to be a solitary individual: for while they were gazing at it another ibex made its appearance upon the cliff, advancing towards the one first seen.
The striking appearance of the ibex is chiefly owing to the noble horns: which nature has bestowed upon it.
After a moment or two had passed, the ibex appeared to recover self-possession; and then he, rearing up, struck out with his horns.
The ibex which we see above us," continued Karl, looking up to the quadruped upon the cliff, "is neither more nor less than a wild goat.
At the first glance he pronounced it an ibex; although he had never seen a living ibex before.
The ibex are wary animals, gifted with very sharp sight and an acute sense of smell.
The last look Fritz ever had of that piece of ibex venison, was seeing it in the beak of the bird, high up in air, growing smaller by degrees and beautifully less--until it disappeared altogether in the dim distance.
Why the bearcoot was thus retaining the ibex in his clutch was not quite so clear: for the animal was evidently dead; and apparently had been so long before reaching the earth.
In this movement the spectators recognised the exact mode of combat practised by common goats; for just in the same fashion does the ibex exhibit his prowess.
The ibex succeeds the gazelle, and many birds unknown in other parts of Palestine are here abundant.
A good and very early example of the Ibex is to be found engraved on a fragment of shell belonging to the earliest Sumerian period (cf.
The man who stalks and kills an ibex has nothing more to learn about stalking.
Of what could two Americans be afraid in the Carnic Alps to challenge a pair of wandering ibex stalkers?
Brown said to Von Glahn: "Ibex stalking is a new game to me.
The snow limit lies just above us; the ibex should pass here at dawn on their way back to the peak.
I said to the Herr Professor in the Traun dialect: ’Ibex may be stirring, as it is already late afternoon.
Only a moment ago I was speaking to Brown about you--of our wonderful ibex hunt!
Chamois, red deer, Scotch stag make you laugh after you’ve done your bit in the ibex line.
He knew, and Brown knew, that these Germans must be taken back as prisoners; that, suspicious or not, they could not be permitted to depart again with a story of having met an American and a Canadian after ibex among the Carnic Alps.
Pritchen was out huntin' mountain sheep a short time ago, so he says, in the Ibex Valley.
Keith had told him the story of the death in the Ibex cabin, and had shown him the little locket.
Did ye lave young Radhurst to die in the Ibex cabin, an' stole his gold?
He saw again the dreary Ibex cabin, the man huddled on the floor, and the grave in the snow.
He doesn't tell everything he knows, an' I reckon he has some good reason fer not tellin' that chap's name that died out in the Ibex cabin.
Father told you the story of that man dying out in the Ibex cabin, and that the letters on the rock are the same as on the empty poke which was found in that chest.
The parson told in plain words how he'd found a sick man in the Ibex cabin, an' cared fer 'im as well as he could.
Ye left 'im a sick man, to starve, to die in the Ibex cabin; that's what ye did.
Could it be possible that this was the very one, the "Bill," whom that dying man in the Ibex cabin mentioned?
I tell you I do, and that you, Bill Pritchen, robbed young Kenneth Radhurst, your partner, and left him to die in the lonely Ibex cabin.
They hunt the ibex and shoot the francolin and the bustard, and make soup of them.
The Ibex of the Alps differs, for instance, from that of the Pyrenees, that of the Pyrenees from those of the Caucasus and Himalayas, these again from each other and from that of the Altai.
Compare, for example, the Reindeer of the Arctics with the Ibex and the Chamois, representing the same group in the Alps.
The Abyssinian ibex is found in the high mountains of the country from which it takes its name.
The ibex was long one of the chief objects of the Alpine hunter.
This ibex inhabits the mountain ranges of Central Asia, from the Altai to the Himalayas, and the Himalayas as far as the source of the Ganges.
In the Himalayas the chief foes of the ibex are the snow-leopard and wild dog.
The way in which the ibex come down the passes and over the precipices is simply astonishing.
The Alpine ibex is now extinct in the Swiss Alps and Tyrol, but survives on the Piedmontese side of Monte Rosa.
The Asiatic ibex is the finest of the group; its horns have been found to measure nearly fifty-five inches along the curve.
He tells us in his private hunting-book that he once shot an ibex at a distance of two hundred yards with a crossbow, after one of his companions had missed it with a gun, or "fire-tube.
THE IBEX Of the ibex, perhaps the best known of all the wild goats, several species, differing somewhat in size and in the form of their horns, are found in various parts of the Old World.
Of these, the Arabian ibex inhabits the mountains of Southern Arabia, Palestine, and Sinai, Upper Egypt, and perhaps Morocco.
The Ibex combines with the characters of the Goat the agility and fleetness of the Antelopes.
There is game, ibex and leopard, in these mountains; but the traveller, unless a man of leisure, must not expect to shoot or even to sight it.
The chamois is becoming rare, and the ibex or steinbock, once common in all the high Alps, is now believed to be confined to the Cogne mountains in Piedmont, between the valleys of the Dora Baltea and the Orco.
The ibex is an animal of the goat kind, and inhabits the mountainous districts of the south of Europe, it is the most graceful of all its tribes; it is extremely active.
The horns of the ibex are large and knotty, its skin is of a yellow color, and its beard short and black.
If an ewe gives birth to a lion with the horny exuberance of an ibex on its face, prices will be lowered[73].
If an ewe gives birth to a lion with the horny exuberance of an ibex on its face and if the eyes are open[74], prices will be high.
The owner of the sierras above mentioned (the Marquis del Mérito) has favoured us with latest details respecting both the ibex and other wild beasts therein.
On these lower hills the ibex owe their safety, and survival, to the vast area of covert, and, in less degree, to their comparatively small numbers.
The shepherds who come to these high tops to pasture their herds for a few weeks each summer have chances to kill the ibex which they do not neglect.
That the ibex should have survived such persecution by hardy mountaineers bespeaks their natural cunning.
There are no ibex in that Cantabrian range; the graceful act was there inspired by a desire to preserve the chamois, animals with which we deal in another chapter.
They never enter caves or crevices of the rocks as ibex habitually do.
Only after sun-down do the ibex descend, and never, even then, so far as timber-line.
When Don Manuel Silvela, the statesman, was here twenty years ago, some 150 ibex were driven past his post above the Laguna de Grédos.
Six guards were selected from the self-same goat-herds who, up to that date, had themselves been engaged in hunting to extermination the last surviving ibex of the sierra, and whom we had ourselves employed during various expeditions therein.
To hunt the ibex successfully is as hard a matter as hunting the chamois, for the ibex is to the full as wary and active an animal, and is sometimes apt to turn the tables on its pursuer, and assume the offensive.
The difficulty of the chase is further increased by the fact that the ibex is an animal of remarkable powers of endurance, and is capable of abstaining from food or water for a considerable time.
There was a roast joint that tasted three parts mutton and one part venison--the flesh of an ibex shot by Mr. Appleton himself.
True, sahib," said the man uneasily: "but there are ibex and other clean animals for our guns.
The young of the Ibexare sometimes captured and tamed.
But the mother Ibex has a habit of leading a very independent life, wandering to considerable distances, and leaving her kid snugly hidden in some rock-cleft.
And the ibex speeds like a chill glacial wind across the snow fields and craggy solitudes, and only a man armed with a cordite repeater can hope to bring him down.
Have you the sharp hoofs of the ibexto gallop you from crag to crag, across gorges and gargantas and all?
They were still too low in the sierras to come across the tracks of snow-capering wild ibex and thus appease their famished stomachs.
Sheep are undoubtedly sometimes found in difficult and even dangerous places, but to describe sheep shooting as anything like ibexor chamois hunting is pure folly.
I, after stopping to rest a few minutes, and watching four ibex which shewed on the left, when I got up, was almost blind.
As we came more under the mountain on which the ibex were, a change of position on their part effected a change in the minds of the shikarries who, calling a halt, held a brief consultation together.
Putting my hand to the muzzle, I drew it in--the ibex now in full view, shewing his breast, a fine mark.
At last we saw nine ibex on the summit of an adjoining eminence, far out of reach, and they leisurely making their retreat still further.
Ibex are plentiful, bears also, and in the autumn, 'bara sing.
The guns being reloaded, we looked about, and saw a large flock of ibex startled at the reports, but puzzled to know their meaning.
We descended to the river which we crossed on the snow, and up the opposite side,--ibex seen above us.
I was still looking after the retreating game, when Subhan signalled something exciting, and we found he had spied other four ibex in sight, far off.
There are ibex and shapu a few miles off, but not in any numbers, and the ground very difficult: the latter information I regard little, feeling now equal to anything.
We were preparing to move, when two more ibex were seen following in the track of the others.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ibex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
