"Catching the wild Dahu" Top 5 Page for this destination Grenoble Things to Do Tip by vinc_bilb

Someone could suggest you to participate in a (night-) capture of the enigmatic dahu in mountains areas. Be aware that:
- The Dahu is very very rare (Alps: France, Italy, Switzerland)
- It's similar to a mountain goat animal or to a deer
- its legs on one side of its body are shorter than on the other side (This enables it to walk upright on the steep slopes of its mountain environment).
- So It can only walk around the mountain in one direction.
- The dahu is generally a night-animal (so, no photo)

The are mainly two ways for catching a dahu during the night:
/1/ The most used involves having one person at the bottom of the mountain slope and one person who is good at making dahu sounds so as to gain the attention of the dahu so that it will turn around. When it does so, it loses its balance and rolls down the hill to the person with the bag at the bottom of the hill.

/2/ The other method is to have pepper ground onto a large stone; when the dahu, while grazing, comes and sniffs the pepper, it would sneeze and knock itself out against the stone.

Warnings:
- the Prefect of Haute-Savoie officially made the mountainous suburbs of the small town of Reigner a "Dahu Sanctuary" where hunting and photography are forbidden
- The Dahu is rare and precious bounty, the capture requires in general waiting alone all night on a chilly slope, crouched in an uncomfortable position.

What do you think about that? More details in an other tip:
Local custom (Dahu)

Address: French alps
Directions: In high mountain, in zones them steep and of night
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahu