. Big game hunting for boys, North America and Asia. Hunting. IBEX HUNTING IN THE HIMALAYAS all but the old male who promptly came to its mate's rescue, and attacked the leopard with the utmost fury. It wielded its huge horns like clubs, and succeeded in battering the leopard until It let go its hold. The female, badly clawed, then got away and was soon rejoined by the heroic ibex. The hunter got the impression that the leopard was only too glad to get out of the mess. It limped away, showing that it had been badly wrenched or torn in the fio"ht. The incident gave the hunter a new idea of
. Big game hunting for boys, North America and Asia. Hunting. IBEX HUNTING IN THE HIMALAYAS all but the old male who promptly came to its mate's rescue, and attacked the leopard with the utmost fury. It wielded its huge horns like clubs, and succeeded in battering the leopard until It let go its hold. The female, badly clawed, then got away and was soon rejoined by the heroic ibex. The hunter got the impression that the leopard was only too glad to get out of the mess. It limped away, showing that it had been badly wrenched or torn in the fio"ht. The incident gave the hunter a new idea of the ibex's pluck, for there are not many animals of its size that will face a leopard. Taken on the whole the ibex family is not greatly troubled by enemies. They are exposed to their greatest danger when food gives out in the mountains, and they are compelled to come down into the valleys. On the heights the ibex is fairly safe, for any beast of prey that relied on killing an ibex every day would soon die of starvation. As far as Europe is concerned the ibex may as well be counted out, for, if it is not quite extinct, it has become so rare that no hunter would credit a story of its appearance in one of its former haunts. The ibex was once plentiful in Switzer- land, and there may still be a few there under protection. There are undoubtedly specimens of this fine goat to be found in the Caucasus Mountains in Asia Minor. The ibex has vanished in recent years from the Pyrenees and Sierra Nevada Mountains of Spain. With regard to this latter species many naturalists hold that this ibex wasn't an ibex at all, but closely related to the tame Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hyde, John, 1874- [from old catalog]. New York, McLoughlin brothers
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