The Alpine ibex, a wild goat with long curved horns found in the mountains of Europe.
From French 'bouquetin,' derived from Italian 'stambecco' with French prefix 'bou-,' ultimately from Latin 'ibex' meaning wild goat. The French name emphasizes the animal's presence in French Alpine regions.
Bouquetins were hunted to extinction in the Alps by the 1850s, but Swiss conservation efforts successfully reintroduced them from a tiny population in Gran Paradiso—one of nature's great comebacks.
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