It’s remarkable how they can look so clumsy on the ground but can scale trees and cliff faces!
Dick the Damned:
July 10th, 2012 at 4:02 am
Jumpin Jeezus, i sure hope that bit of vegetation was worth the effort & risk.
The very model of a modern armchair general:
July 10th, 2012 at 5:14 am
Imagine being that goat, trying to turn around to walk back the other way. Makes me feel dizzy.
McC2lhu iz not nu.:
July 10th, 2012 at 7:00 am
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):
July 10th, 2012 at 7:54 am
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.
StevoR:
July 10th, 2012 at 8:23 am
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!
StevoR:
July 10th, 2012 at 8:28 am
Typo correction :
..where these strange goat-y-sheep-y animals were running up cliffs where they lived or at least sheltered at nights ..
Sorry.
Anri:
July 10th, 2012 at 8:56 am
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 rauglaudre:
July 10th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Don’t they fall sometimes?
jonathanray:
July 10th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
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…
Glen Davidson:
July 9th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Fingers are great for climbing.
Never understood how they do so well with hooves.
Glen Davidson
theophontes (坏蛋):
July 9th, 2012 at 11:36 pm
Hey! The naughty goat is “mooning” us…
feralboy12:
July 9th, 2012 at 11:44 pm
I know they’re sure-footed and all, but I don’t think he can make that jump.
Daniel Brady:
July 10th, 2012 at 12:26 am
It’s remarkable how they can look so clumsy on the ground but can scale trees and cliff faces!
Dick the Damned:
July 10th, 2012 at 4:02 am
Jumpin Jeezus, i sure hope that bit of vegetation was worth the effort & risk.
The very model of a modern armchair general:
July 10th, 2012 at 5:14 am
Imagine being that goat, trying to turn around to walk back the other way. Makes me feel dizzy.
McC2lhu iz not nu.:
July 10th, 2012 at 7:00 am
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):
July 10th, 2012 at 7:54 am
Of course not. It’s not a cow.
StevoR:
July 10th, 2012 at 8:23 am
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!
StevoR:
July 10th, 2012 at 8:28 am
Typo correction :
Sorry.
Anri:
July 10th, 2012 at 8:56 am
Well, I prefer Twilight Sparkle, but whatever floats your boat, PZ.
. . .
. . .
…oh, you meant the landscape.
Um, erhm, yes, very nice, very nice indeed.
danielde rauglaudre:
July 10th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Don’t they fall sometimes?
jonathanray:
July 10th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
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.
Bart B. Van Bockstaele:
July 21st, 2012 at 8:04 am
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…