Talk:Alpine ibex

message: User:Ferkelparade: Of course, I udnerstood that the English also like to call it steinbock. Only wanted to point out that it is German origin. (for English speakers: Steinbock is a German word, maening the same in german as in English, and put together from Stein=rock and Bock=(male) goat). Simon A. 15:17, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Simon, I didn't think it was really necessary to add that the name is German...for example, the article on the Gnu/Wildebeest also just lists both common names without pointing out that one of them is the Boer name. Anyway, before we're riding the Ibex into Polish City territory, I've reinserted a small note about the German origin of the name :P Ferkelparade π 17:44, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steinbock 

message: I assume this refers to height at the withers rather than head???--SB Pete (talk) 18:49, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height of 1M?? 

message: I don't know what source provided the figure of 22,000 feet for the upper elevational limit of Capra ibex, but if it's restricted to the Alps, then 15,774 feet (the summit of Mont Blanc) would seem to be the maximum possible (excluding the possibility of goat flight). I have changed it to 15,000, but suspect that even that is an overestimate. Can anyone provide a more accurate figure? --Stemonitis 06:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  22,000 feet? 

message: What's a bouquetin?
:As far as I'm aware, bouquetin is just the French name for ibex. There might be some justification for including this in the English article, since much of the alpine ibex's habitat is in France and French-speaking Switzerland. Mtford 02:43, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bouquetins? 

message: There are no jackals in the alps, so how can they get in a fight with the steinbock? 84.169.223.237 19:09, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jackals? 

message: WHY CAN THEY DEFY GRAVITY? Seriously. I read about these on Cracked, and neither Cracked nor the site Cracked linked to nor Wikipedia have explained sufficiently WHY they can just walk up walls like Spiderman. I mean some of the photographs I've seen of them are quite literally impossible. There is one line in this article, which says that they are "good climbers" in essence. Well so am I, and I can't ascend to the ceiling when I feel like it.
Thanks in advance if anybody knows the answer to this.
64.253.217.55 (talk) 04:58, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Climbing

message: Hey some twat changed a bunch of numbers to 69 all over the article. I changed a few with my best guesses  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.145.135.143 (talk) 04:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  69 

message: To explain the reason for the recent vandalism, I believe it was tied to the 20th Anniversary of the original British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The question asked what an ibex was, and the choices were goat, pig, hare, and of course, deer. The contestant picked deer as his answer, and was told by Jeremy, the host, that he'd got it right...when he actually got it wrong. So yeah, that's probably why.
--Asameshimae1 (talk) 13:04, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reasons for Vandalism 

message: What exactly is the size of alpine ibex?, 2405:201:1C:D1C6:AB:A7FB:977A:3E57 (talk) 05:52, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alpine ibex