Bezoar ibex are about the same size as a large dog, with short fur that turns from sandy brown in summer to a thick winter coat. The males' horns can grow more than a metre long - bigger than the goat's whole back. They use the horns to push each other gently in friendly contests, like wrestlers.
Their feet are the secret to their cliff-climbing. Each hoof has a hard outer edge and a soft rubbery middle - so it grips rough rock the way a climbing shoe does. They can stand on a ledge no wider than your hand.
Bezoar ibex live in groups called herds. Mothers and young goats stay together; the older males sometimes wander alone. They eat grasses, herbs and the leaves of shrubs that grow in the cracks of the cliffs. In winter they come down to lower slopes where the snow is thinner.
These wild goats are the ancestors of all the farmed goats in the world. Thousands of years ago, people in this region started looking after the tamest, friendliest bezoar goats - and slowly, over many generations, those goats turned into the goats that give us milk and cheese today. Wild bezoar goats never stopped being wild.