Mountain Goats Defy Gravity On Steep Cliffs - Roaring Earth

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Photo by Ross Donihue, CC BY 4.0

Some animals choose to live in environments that most species find completely inhospitable. In the case of these mountain goats – a term used loosely here to include Rocky Mountain Goats, Ibex, and other species of wild goats – climbing near-vertical cliffs suspended high above the ground is just part of daily life… These goats seek salt deposits in the rock walls.

This little goat showed off its rock-climbing skills when it hung out on a vertical wall in India – a well known wall known as Arguna’s Penance:

Here is a photo of the wall, to give you a sense of the bigger picture:

Ssriram mt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Watch these Alpine Ibex as they hang out on a nearly vertical incline on an Italian dam.

And leap from peak to peak:

Mount Evans, Colorado is the highest auto road in the United States. However, goats were traversing this high-altitude road long before the advent of cars. Watch these goats display their keen ability to climb vertical walls:

Watch a goat narrowly escape an attack from a Snow Leopard, in one of the only known recordings of a snow leopard hunting in the Himalayas:

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