{"id":36013,"count":1,"description":"The chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra, is a goat-antelope species native to mountains in Europe, including the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, the European Alps, the Tatra Mountains, the Balkans, parts of Turkey, and the Caucasus. The chamois has also been introduced to the South Island of New Zealand. Some subspecies of chamois are strictly protected in the EU under the European Habitats Directive.\nThe English name is from the French chamois. This is derived from Latin camox, borrowed from Gaulish, itself perhaps a borrowing from Iberian or Aquitanian, akin to modern Basque ahuntz, \"goat\".\nThe usual pronunciation for the animal in British English is \/\u02c8\u0283\u00e6mw\u0251\u02d0\/, or in American English \/\u0283\u00e6m\u02c8w\u0251\u02d0\/, approximating the French pronunciation. However when referring to chamois leather, and in New Zealand often for the animal itself, it is \/\u02c8\u0283\u00e6mi\/, and sometimes spelt \"shammy\" or \"chamy\". The plural of \"chamois\" is spelled the same as the singular, and it may be pronounced with the final \"s\" sounded...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/chamois\/","name":"Chamois","slug":"chamois","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/36013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=36013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}