A Chamois is a goat-like antelope, living in the high mountains of Europe and Western Asia.
7 Facts About Chamois:
- It is a rather small animal, with a brownish coat that changes to faun color in summer and gray in the spring.
- Its head is of a pale yellow color, marked by a black band surrounding the eyes and extending from the nose to the ears.
- Its horns, which are about six or seven inches long, are round and almost smooth, and they grow straight upward until near the tip, where they suddenly end in a sharp hook that is bent backward.
- The tail is black.
- During the feeding time, which is in the morning, one animal is always standing on guard in some prominent place for the purpose of warning the rest of approaching danger.
- The fleetness of the chamois, the roughness of the mountains which it inhabits, and its powers of smell, make its pursuit both difficult and dangerous.
- Though the flesh is highly prized as food, the chief value of a chamois lies in its skin, which is used to make the very soft, flexible leather known as chamois skin.
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