apart generally, often in flocks of one hundred and more, 
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In Octo- 
ber the males descend and mix with the females, which have generally 
twins in June and July. 
It is an extremely wary and timid animal, 
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inaccessible-looking ground. No animal can exceed the ibex in en- 
durance and agility.” 
Kinloch writes as follows concerning it :— 
«The ibex inhabits the most precipitous ground in the highest parts 
