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Capra (genus)

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Capra
Temporal range: 2.6–0 Ma
Pleistocene-Present
Female an male Siberie ibex at the Berlin Zoological Garden
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Faimily: Bovidae
Subfaimily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: Capra
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Approximate range o the Capra species

Capra is a genus o mammals, the gaits or wild gaits, componed o up tae nine species, includin the wild gait, the markhor, an several species kent as ibex. The domestic gait (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a domesticatit subspecies o the wild gait (Capra aegagrus). Evidence o gait domestication dates back mair nor 8,500 years.