rupicaprine

Example Sentences

• "They are also sometimes called the Rupicaprine antelopes from the scientific name of the chamois (Rupicapra)."
• "Conspicuous among the new arrivals is the mountain goat (Oreamnos), the first member of the rupicaprine division of the antelope family to be recorded in North America."
• "Among the ungulate world, the entries were much more limited, restricted, in fact, to the first elk of the species Libralces gallicus (from the site of Sene`ze, France), sometimes included in the genus Cervalces; the rupicaprine bovid Gallogoral Gallogoral meneghini; and one species of the ovibovine bovid Praeovibos (whose oldest record comes from the latest Pliocene beds of Almenara I and Barranco Conejos, Spain)."
• "An excellent indication of this fact is the absence in Pityusic Pleistocene sites of the rupicaprine Myotragus, which is so frequent in the ossiferous Quaternary breccia of Mallorca and Menorca."
• "The caprines, apart from rupicaprines and Saigini have been included by Schaller (1977) in the category 'selective grazer and browser; uses several vegetation types; seasonal diet change; large home area' of Jarman's (1974) classification."
• "These two very distinct genera appear to form a convenient bridge between the antelopes on the one hand and the rupicaprines on the other."