Close up view of an adult male mountain goat in late-winter, near Juneau Icefield, Alaska. In the background, steep avalanche prone slopes are visible. (Photo courtesy of Kevin White) The mountain ...

The scene ends badly, as you might imagine. By Lesley Evans Ogden Mountain goats are high-elevation daredevils, learning to balance upon the steepest of rocky edifices soon after they are born.

For three summers, wildlife managers wrestled mountain goats in Washington state’s Olympic National Park, blindfolded them and then flew them into the far reaches of the state’s Cascade Range — an ...

While humans were building pyramids and starting civilizations, goats were making their own way. These clever animals have been outwitting us for thousands of years. The British primitive goats of the ...

Thousands of metres above sea level, in the coastal mountains in southeast Alaska, one animal ventures higher than most others dare to climb. Mountain goats, their thick white coats blending in with ...

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