It’s remarkable how they can look so clumsy on the ground but can scale trees and cliff faces!
Dick the Damnedsays
Jumpin Jeezus, i sure hope that bit of vegetation was worth the effort & risk.
The very model of a modern armchair generalsays
Imagine being that goat, trying to turn around to walk back the other way. Makes me feel dizzy.
McC2lhu iz not nu.says
Anti-gravity hooves…check
Utter and complete lack of sense of vertigo…check
Inability to imagine disaster…check
Sili (I have no penis and I must jizz)says
I know they’re sure-footed and all, but I don’t think he can make that jump.
Of course not. It’s not a cow.
StevoRsays
Wow.
Goats can be be .. remarakably impressive climbers especially given their biological, um, equipment or seeming lack thereof.
Recalls an Attenborough doc – think it was called Planet Earth* but may be wrong – where these strange goat-y-sheep-y animals (Barbary sheep? / Ethiopian mountain goats? Or something?) where running up cliffs where they lived or atleats sheltered at nightsand another doco where goats where climbing trees (I kid you not!) to get at this particular tasty berry thing they loved.
* With intro music ironically being Holst’s Jupiter!
StevoRsays
Typo correction :
..where these strange goat-y-sheep-y animals were running up cliffs where they lived or at least sheltered at nights ..
Sorry.
Anrisays
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Nice view
Well, I prefer Twilight Sparkle, but whatever floats your boat, PZ.
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…oh, you meant the landscape.
Um, erhm, yes, very nice, very nice indeed.
danielde rauglaudresays
Don’t they fall sometimes?
jonathanraysays
It’s walking on a path, not climbing. And a lot of humans suck at climbing because they’re incredibly weak compared to other primates. Mountain goats aren’t very good either. They can handle 50-60 degrees max except in special cases like this excessive footholds which most humans could also handle if they didn’t freak out about the height.
It reminds me of a nasty situation I got myself into at Toronto’s Brick Works, where I had to let myself fall, hoping that a small tree some distance below me would be strong enough to hold me. It was, otherwise I wouldn’t be whining about it. Having long and nasty thorns, it did shred my jacket and some of my own leather as well, though. It was not a good day, but it certainly taught me not to into the mountains, trying to imitate goats…
Fingers are great for climbing.
Never understood how they do so well with hooves.
Glen Davidson
Hey! The naughty goat is “mooning” us…
I know they’re sure-footed and all, but I don’t think he can make that jump.
It’s remarkable how they can look so clumsy on the ground but can scale trees and cliff faces!
Jumpin Jeezus, i sure hope that bit of vegetation was worth the effort & risk.
Imagine being that goat, trying to turn around to walk back the other way. Makes me feel dizzy.
Anti-gravity hooves…check
Utter and complete lack of sense of vertigo…check
Inability to imagine disaster…check
Of course not. It’s not a cow.
Wow.
Goats can be be .. remarakably impressive climbers especially given their biological, um, equipment or seeming lack thereof.
Recalls an Attenborough doc – think it was called Planet Earth* but may be wrong – where these strange goat-y-sheep-y animals (Barbary sheep? / Ethiopian mountain goats? Or something?) where running up cliffs where they lived or atleats sheltered at nightsand another doco where goats where climbing trees (I kid you not!) to get at this particular tasty berry thing they loved.
* With intro music ironically being Holst’s Jupiter!
Typo correction :
Sorry.
Well, I prefer Twilight Sparkle, but whatever floats your boat, PZ.
. . .
. . .
…oh, you meant the landscape.
Um, erhm, yes, very nice, very nice indeed.
Don’t they fall sometimes?
It’s walking on a path, not climbing. And a lot of humans suck at climbing because they’re incredibly weak compared to other primates. Mountain goats aren’t very good either. They can handle 50-60 degrees max except in special cases like this excessive footholds which most humans could also handle if they didn’t freak out about the height.
It reminds me of a nasty situation I got myself into at Toronto’s Brick Works, where I had to let myself fall, hoping that a small tree some distance below me would be strong enough to hold me. It was, otherwise I wouldn’t be whining about it. Having long and nasty thorns, it did shred my jacket and some of my own leather as well, though. It was not a good day, but it certainly taught me not to into the mountains, trying to imitate goats…