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TavolarçJ ,.,
exlinct during ihe
lwenlieth cenlury

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San Pietro
"'\l

La Galite ,.,
exlinct around 1904

Lampedusa,.,
'i:l exlinct around 1847

Fig. 4 - Wild goat populations of the Capra aegagms phenotype in the south-central Mediterranean islands during the
nineteenth an d twentieth centuries, with the geographicallocation of the island of Lampedusa in the Sicilian Channel
(Italy) (drawing by Sandra Sacchetti)

bearded and horned [ ... ] with shorter fur, but of a much greater size ... " (Cetti,
177 4). Their existence o n Tavolara,was continuously disturbed by the hunters who
reached the islet from the surrounding islands and the mainland. "Ali day long the
hunters would stalk the goats aver the crags, where they roamed by day, but even
better in the morning or evening they would lie in wait unti! the goats carne down
to the shore to drink, and then they would ambush and attack them; in a single
expedition they slaughtered as many as fìve hundred". ( Cetti, 177 4). The wild goats

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