These physical adaptations allow it to run and leap on bare, rocky, rough and steep slopes out of reach of potential predators.

[1] The Iberian ibex is generally a mixed feeder between a browser and a grazer, depending on the plant availability in their home range.

[5] The ibex also has a special mechanism in the kidney that stores fat in order to be used as energy during the cold winter times.

The highest body storage of kidney fat can be found during the productive warm seasons and the lowest during the cold period.

Allocation to testes mass was greatest in the rutting season, particularly at ages that are associated with a subordinate status and a coursing, rather than mate-guarding, reproductive strategy.

Once the group has heard the alarm calls, they will flee to another area that is usually an advantageous vantage point like a rocky slope where the predator cannot reach.

However, since their alarm calls consists of an abrupt explosive whistle, it can easily be heard by predators and quickly be located even from a distance.

[2] There are also a number of threats to the future preservation of the Iberian ibex such as population overabundance, disease, and potential competition with domestic livestock and other ungulates, along with the negative effects of human disturbance through tourism and hunting.

[5] Recently ibexes from southern Spain have become exposed to disease outbreaks such as sarcoptic mange,[2] the animal version of human scabies.