How to Use ibex in a Sentence

ibex

noun
  • His last meal included grain, plants and meat from deer and ibex.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • Other motifs found on the sandals range from a pair of cats to an ibex and a rosette.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2020
  • The presence of ibex, a species of mountain goat, bodes well for a snow leopard sighting.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Spend the next day hiking among bands of Gelada monkeys and rare Walia ibex.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Around the man’s neck was a heavy band of twisted gold decorated with a frieze of panthers, ibex, camels and other beasts.
    — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2013
  • There were also images of an ibex with two heads, or a bull drawing superimposed over the drawing of a deer.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Nearly half the stomach contents were identified as the body fat of an ibex, a wild goat that still lives in the Alps.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2018
  • Sweeping antlers of sure-footed ibex appear prominently.
    — Martin J. Kernan, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Known for his game dishes including ibex and chamois, Violier was an avid hunter.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 2 Feb. 2016
  • The heel is shaped like the hoof of a horse, nature’s most stable climber, and the forefoot like the horn of an ibex, nature’s best climber overall.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Watching this ibex scale a dam is both fascinating and extremely stressful.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020
  • To demonstrate his case for instinct, Marcus showed a slide of baby ibexes descending a cliff.
    — Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 24 May 2018
  • The walia ibex, with its distinctive large curved horns, is regarded as a national symbol in Ethiopia.
    — Lauren Liebhaber july 23, Miami Herald, 23 July 2025
  • Rugged and well-suited to varied terrain, wild goats evolved from the bezoar ibex and proved amenable to early herding and breeding efforts.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Along the way, spot Himalayan ibex, Tibetan wolves, and endangered Himalayan brown bears.
    — Rumit Mehta, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
  • While snow leopards may prey on these substitutes, the livestock encroach on the range of their native prey species like blue sheep and ibex, pushing them out of some areas.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Overhead, griffon vultures and golden eagles circle the Alpine peaks, where rare ibex and pudgy marmots scurry among brown bears and wolves.
    — National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Their multi-pronged approach allowed the scientists to identify the meat as wild game, red deer and ibex, with a high degree of certainty.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2021
  • For the elusive snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan, a satisfying meal consists of an ibex or an argali.
    — National Geographic, 15 June 2016
  • Mothers raise their cubs on their own for about 18 months, according to the trust, before the cubs are released to hunt ibex, argali and sheep high in the mountains.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • Photographer Amit Eshel of Israel witnessed these two ibex from a vantage point at the top of a cliff.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • That same year, 15 ibex, of an eventual total release of 73, were introduced in the Floridas.
    — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This is one of the last true high Alpine wildernesses in Europe, home to rare wildlife including ibex, mountain hares, black vultures and golden eagles.
    — Sam Haddad, 1843, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The researchers’ first step was to use the DNA sequences to identify the species of animals—goats, sheep, ibex or cows—whose skin was used to make the parchment.
    — Josie Glausiusz, Scientific American, 2 June 2020
  • Some animals — like the chamois, elks, and ibexes — might descend a couple of miles from the mountaintop and spend the colder months at lower altitudes, where the weather is slightly warmer.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But with the decline of these prey species, the cats have begun to rely on mountain prey that may be more liminal to their regular diet such as Persian ibex and urials, a type of wild sheep.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Veterinary staff traced the source of their infection to an MCF virus that was being carried asymptomatically in the ibex.
    — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Diet and hunting Snow leopards prey upon the blue sheep (bharal) of Tibet and the Himalayas, as well as the mountain ibex found over most of the rest of their range.
    — National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The researchers reported 16 rock art panels depicting cattle, sheep, goats, and possibly ibexes.
    — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Until the late 1980s, the desolate, hilly chunk of desert was empty save for military bases, roaming herds of ibex and a few settlements of nomadic Bedouins.
    — Yadid Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2020

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