West Caucasian Tur

The West Caucasian tur, Capra caucasica, also known as the zebuder, zac or Caucasian ibex, is a mountain-dwelling goat-antelope native to the western half of the Caucasus Mountains, in Georgia and European Russia. West Caucasian turs stand up to a metre tall at the shoulder and weigh around 65 kilograms, with large but narrow bodies, short legs, a chestnut coat with a yellow underbelly and heavily ridged, scimitar-shaped horns about 70 centimetres long in males. The East Caucasian tur is sometimes considered a subspecies of this species, though some separate the two, and a third intermediate form, the Mid-Caucasian tur, lives between them. It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Populations have been declining due to livestock grazing in their habitat and poaching for meat, skin and horns.