Chiltan ibex

The Chiltan ibex, also called the Chiltan goat and classed as Capra aegagrus chialtanensis, is a wild goat endemic to the Chiltan area of Balochistan, Pakistan. Males are reddish-gray, and some have a dark brown or black chest and sometimes a dark shoulder stripe, as the Bezoar ibex does. Females are reddish-gray with a dark brown stripe down the back and white legs marked with dark brown below the knees. The horns are flat, sharply curved at the front and form a long open spiral, reaching about 73.7 centimetres, with the longest recorded near 101.6 centimetres. Populations once lived in Chiltan, Mordar, Koh-i-Maran and Koh-i-Gishk, but uncontrolled hunting cut numbers to about 170 in the Sulaiman Mountains by 1975, in what is now Hazarganji-Chiltan National Park. By 2023 the population had grown to 2,250 individuals.