The Balearean boc (Capra hircus var. majorcan [1] ) also known as the Majorcan wild goat, is a caprid present on the Balearic Islands in Spain. Being the only big game species that exists in the Balearic Islands, it has attracted attention from international hunters, particularly from the United States, where the SCI included it as a game species in 2004. [2] The CIC and the National Board of Trophy Hunting Homologation included it in 2009 and 2008 respectively. [3]
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Balearean bocs naturally occur exclusively in the Balearic Islands, and in no other area in the globe. [4] They are particularly abundant in Alcúdia and Formentor.
Balearean bocs are found in arid mountainous areas where they graze and browse grasses, bushes, and lichens. [5] They are well adapted to their habitat, which consist of steep, rocky mountains and canyons.
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Balearean bocs often flee at the first sign of danger, typically running uphill, contrary to the common misconception that views them as tame. They are able to obtain some of their metabolic water from food, but if liquid water is available, they drink and wallow in it.
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Balearic is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: mallorquí in Mallorca, eivissenc in Ibiza and menorquí in Menorca.
The Catalan Countries are those territories where the Catalan language is spoken. They include the Spanish regions of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencian Community, and parts of Aragon and Murcia (Carche), as well as the Principality of Andorra, the department of Pyrénées-Orientales in France, and the city of Alghero in Sardinia (Italy). It is often used as a sociololinguistic term to describe the cultural-linguistic area where Catalan is spoken. In the context of Catalan nationalism, the term is sometimes used in a more restricted way to refer to just Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. The Catalan Countries do not correspond to any present or past political or administrative unit, though most of the area belonged to the Crown of Aragon in the Middle Ages. Parts of Valencia (Spanish) and Catalonia (Occitan) are not Catalan-speaking.
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