Its official name is chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), but in the south it is called chamois.

Otherwise you would have to say chamois beard, which almost sounded like roast goose.

Which brings us to the subject: chamois and goose, only one letter distinguishes these two animals, and otherwise they have come close to each other in an uncanny way these days by sharing a fate: they have been targeted.

And there, as is well known, the danger to life is not far.

"Hunting hunters - thoughts of shooting", wrote the poet Uwe Dick in "Der Jäger vom Bang".

In the south of the Free State of Bavaria, the Wildtier-Schutzverein Wildes Bayern took action against this practice and accused the head of the Berchtesgaden National Park not only for killing chamois, but also preferring to do so during the closed season.

Roland Baier went to court against these claims of the determined association chairman Christine Miller and was right;

the loser is now looking for other ways to continue to assert what is wrong in the opinion of the Bavarian Higher Regional Court.

There is a goose alarm in Franconia

Because in a small part of the Bavarian mountain forests, the chamois can also be hunted outside the closed season, which lasts from August 1st to December 15th, because by consuming young shoots it endangers the regrowth of the mountain forest.

The method of choice when hunting chamois is - attention, crossword puzzle fans - a handgun with six letters.

The situation is different, a good three hundred kilometers north-northwest in the Central Franconian administrative district.

There is a goose alarm there.

The feathered animals have increased so much at some lakes that even the state association for bird protection approves the hunt.

The use of birds of prey has also recently been considered.

The hatred of animal rights activists for the goose killers is limitless.

What does Konrad Lorenz have to do with it?

As an importer of the evil, goose father Konrad Lorenz is now even brought into play, who is said to have made the gray goose (Anser anser) at home in our latitudes.

Has a runaway success story started at the Max Planck Institute in Seewiesen?

And does the goose, unlike humans, not have the right to unlimited reproduction?

In Franconia they are now trying to scorn: the goose has to see where it doesn't belong.

If she does not, she is threatened with the shotgun, the destruction of the eggs laid with cannulas ("egg stab") or the buzzard.

The Duden knows the beautiful adjective "gamophob" - it means "ehescheu".

"Anserophob" is hereby applied for in the next edition.