The Spanish goat, also known as the Northern Goat, is a typical alpine animal, and the mountaineering technique is very skilled, and can climb the most dangerous cliffs. The horns of the sheep can be more than one meter long, with a maximum length of 1.47 meters. The goat, as well as two close relatives of the Spanish goat of the Iberian Peninsula and the Westminster goat of Ethiopia, are endangered species
Male goats can generally grow to 1 meter tall and 100 kg weight, and female goats are mostly half the size of males. In addition to body size, the biggest difference between males and females is the conspicuous beard. Both male and female goats have large, backward-curved horns, and male horns can grow up to 1 meter long and up to 1.47 meters long. They use their horns to protect themselves from predators such as wolves, bobcats, bears, jackals, and foxes
Young sheep are also attacked by large birds such as eagles. Sheep are brownish grey in the summer, but turn dark brown in the winter
They feed at dusk and at night, starting from high cliffs and reaching the lower Alpine lawns. The rest of the time is spent on higher cliffs and slopes to avoid predator attacks. In winter, due to the scarcity of food, the sheep tend to live at lower elevations
The sheep was considered a mysterious animal for a long time. Almost all parts of its body, even excrement, are used as ingredients in magic potions to treat different diseases. As a result, the sheep were once hunted in large numbers and were close to extinction in the early 19th century
But for the sake of foresters, the last sheep in the Gran Paradiso Hill were protected in 1816. In 1854, Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy provided protection for the sheep. After many large-scale reintroduction programmes, the number of sheep is estimated at 30,000, and the conservation status is low-risk