What animal is this

[Deimos]

Some people were describing an animal to me today and I just could not work out what it was (and I’m afraid I cannot remember what they called it, though I think it mght have started with S and was not a “wind boar).

It is the size of a small deer, has spirally horns and is red. Mammal. It is a wild animal and I guess not that uncommon as the people concerned were saying how they had seen one.

Any ideas ?

Many thanks

Regards

Ian

[Dave&Olive]

hi

            you think of a sanglier      might be spelt wrong thats a wild boar.........         a quote "wind boar"   ...... well that`s just the wife ......

                         in the mire

                                      dave

[Christine Animal]

Chevreuil ?

Or maybe Chamois because of the spirally horns

http://www.beyond.fr/fauna/chamois.html

http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Rupicapra_rupicapra.html

 

[Cadeby]

Alpine Ibex ( Capra ibex ) ?? Red-brown in Summer. Mature males have curved horns. Lives throughout the Alps.

or :

Mouflon ( Ovis orientalis ) ?? Red year-round, though darker in Winter. Male has extremely spiralled horns. Corsica and all mountainous regions of Europe.