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The Walia ibex is a valuable and distinct conservation unit

The Walia ibex is a valuable and distinct conservation unit In addition to the usual suite of human‐related threats to persistence (habitat destruction and fragmentation, competition and exotic diseases from livestock, poaching), the conservation of endangered wild sheep and goats ( Ovis and Capra spp.) is hampered by a limited knowledge of their taxonomy. Taxonomic knowledge is important because it allows the preservation of local adaptations, avoidance of hybridization and, for reintroductions, the re‐establishment of the right species in the right places. The taxonomy of wild sheep and goats, especially in Africa and Asia, is complicated by intergradation and hybridization of taxa, limited data owing to poor accessibility to much of their remote mountainous habitat, and contrasting results of molecular and morphological studies. Of all wild goats, the least known and the most endangered is the Walia ibex Capra walie , restricted since historic times to the Siemen Mountains of Ethiopia, where a current population of about 450 uses 95 km 2 of rugged high‐elevation habitat. Although these ibex look very different from Nubian ibex Capra nubiana found in deserts around the Red Sea, they are likely related to them, and their status as a distinct species has been questioned. Gebremedhin . (2009) used DNA extracted from fecal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animal Conservation Wiley

The Walia ibex is a valuable and distinct conservation unit

Festa‐Bianchet, M.
Animal Conservation , Volume 12 (2) – Apr 1, 2009
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© 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2009 The Zoological Society of London
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1367-9430
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Abstract

In addition to the usual suite of human‐related threats to persistence (habitat destruction and fragmentation, competition and exotic diseases from livestock, poaching), the conservation of endangered wild sheep and goats ( Ovis and Capra spp.) is hampered by a limited knowledge of their taxonomy. Taxonomic knowledge is important because it allows the preservation of local adaptations, avoidance of hybridization and, for reintroductions, the re‐establishment of the right species in the right places. The taxonomy of wild sheep and goats, especially in Africa and Asia, is complicated by intergradation and hybridization of taxa, limited data owing to poor accessibility to much of their remote mountainous habitat, and contrasting results of molecular and morphological studies. Of all wild goats, the least known and the most endangered is the Walia ibex Capra walie , restricted since historic times to the Siemen Mountains of Ethiopia, where a current population of about 450 uses 95 km 2 of rugged high‐elevation habitat. Although these ibex look very different from Nubian ibex Capra nubiana found in deserts around the Red Sea, they are likely related to them, and their status as a distinct species has been questioned. Gebremedhin . (2009) used DNA extracted from fecal

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