2. BALEARIC ISLANDS CAVE GOAT
EXTINCT FROM: Around 5000 years ago(In 2981 BC approximately).
WHAT WAS IT? It was a specie of the subfamily Caprinae which lived on the islands of Mallorca and
Menorca. It was quite small in size (standing about 50 centimetres high at the shoulder) and weighed between 50
and 70 kilograms It seems that it was more closely related to sheeps than goats. It was a browser herbivore
animal. It consumed large amounts of box.
WHY DID IT DISAPPEAR? This question is still not answered. There are some hypothesis, but the
dominant theory is the one that postulates an extinction by human causes.
