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The chamois ( Rupicapra rupicapra) or Alpine chamois is a species of goat-antelope native to the mountains in Southern Europe, from the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Apennines, the Dinarides, the Tatra to the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkan Mountains, the Rila – Rhodope massif, Pindus, the northeastern mountains of Turkey, and the Caucasus. [ 1]
Chamois, Missouri. / 38.67639°N 91.77000°W / 38.67639; -91.77000. Chamois is a city in Osage County, Missouri, United States. The population was 377 at the 2020 census. [ 4] It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Chamois (Valdôtain: Tsamoué) is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy. Chamois is the only municipality in Italy not reachable by motorized vehicles. Visitors can access Chamois by cable car or via a walking path originating at La Magdeleine .
The Breaking Point. The Breaking Point is a collection of eight short stories by Daphne du Maurier first published in 1959 by Victor Gollancz in the UK and Doubleday in the US. It has also been published under the title The Blue Lenses and Other Stories. The stories were written at a time when du Maurier herself came close to a severe nervous ...
Pyrenean chamois. The Pyrenean chamois ( Rupicapra pyrenaica) is a goat-antelope that lives in the Pyrenees and Cantabrian Mountains of Spain, France and Andorra, and the Apennine Mountains of central Italy. It is one of the two species of the genus Rupicapra, the other being the chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra. [1]
Chamois leather is widely used for drying and buffing vehicles after washing. Small pieces of chamois leather (often called "chamois cloth") are commonly used as blending tools by artists drawing with charcoal. [ 16] The leather blends the charcoal more softly and cleanly than the artist's fingers, which can leave smudges. [ 17]
As of 2006, the Slovak Tatra National Park was home to 371 chamois, of which 72 were lambs, and the Polish Tatra National Park was home to 117 chamois, of which 27 were lambs. [3] As of 2010, a population recovered to 841 chamois, of which 74 were lambs, 699 (57 lambs) in Slovakia and 142 (17 lambs) in Poland, which is near the peak of 1964. [4]
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