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In October I showed a series of very special photographs in Las Fotos de los Lectores of La Vanguardia in which you could see a wild chamois specimen with one of its front legs missing, in the CadÃ-Moixeró natural park.
It was not long before the arrival of winter and the animal was found alone in the Pyrenean forests. Things were not looking good and everything indicated that the hardest months would take the life of the unfortunate chamois.
A few days ago I returned to the same area and spent the night camping in the alpine meadows hoping to be able to take some wildlife photos now that spring is starting.
The resilient animal limped up and down the mountain, demonstrating its excellent physical condition as it warmed itself with the first rays of sun after the freezing night.
My partner Gabi and I couldn’t quite believe that an animal with his condition could have survived the harshest months of the year, when temperatures can reach 20 degrees below zero and food is completely covered by several centimeters of snow that Chamois must withdraw precisely making use of the paws.
To top it off, our friend was not alone, he had managed to join a group of thirty other ungulates in which there were already some pups a few days old.
Having overcome the winter, everything indicates that this specimen will live, at least a few more months, a true fighter and survivor whose story deserves to be told.
