Although the park animals live in a vast area offering conditions that are very close to their natural environment they are still subject to some of the issues associated with life in captivity: promiscuity between species enhances territory battles and some stress in the weaker individuals, also despite the care that is given to them overpopulation entails issues with parasites.

For the captures we use anaestheticdarts, shooting the rifle from a distance less than 20 m andaiming for the leg muscle.

Some species such as the mouflons are constantly competing among themselves, which means it can be difficult to single out the right individual to get a clear shot. But even when this is possible, it is important that the targeted animal doesn’t prove too resistant to the anaesthetic. Indeed, stress causes a resistance reaction in mouflons and they can seem immune to the product! This means we have to increase the doses: with a dose for one mouflon you could capture 4 chamois!