For Hervé TOURNIER, warden and scientific referent on the reserve, winter is the ideal time to carry out this count.
Most of the year, multi-year-old males do not live with females.
– excluding tax
Even if they are well equipped for extreme cold, they are less active in winter than the rest of the year.
About forty observation posts are distributed along the eastern barrier of the massif and throughout the southern part of the Vercors highlands. Observers scrutinize the cliffs for three days in a row.
It is sometimes very delicate to differentiate a female from a young male who still has small horns which resemble those of the females.
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