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The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a cloven-footed mammal that is endemic to the remote and rugged mountainous areas of western North America. A subalpine to truly alpine species, it is a sure-footed climber commonly seen on sheer rock faces, near-vertical cliffs and icy passages.
A mountain goat is a mammal species of the genus Oreamnos found in North America. Mountain goat may also refer to: Altai Mountain goat, a breed of domestic goat; Harrington's mountain goat, an extinct relative of the North American mountain goats; Kinetic Mountain Goat, a small airplane; The Mountain Goats, an American indie rock band
The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is the only living species. [2] Until the end of the Pleistocene , another species, Oreamnos harringtoni , was distributed to the south of the recent form. [ 3 ]
The dahu (French pronunciation:) is a legendary creature that resembles a mountain goat and is well known in France and francophone regions of Switzerland and Italy, including the Aosta Valley. The dahu, a quadrupedal mammal , may have been inspired by the chamois , a small, horned goat-antelope once plentiful in European mountainous regions ...
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Other invertebrates with high-altitude habitats are Euophrys omnisuperstes, a spider that lives in the Himalaya range at altitudes of up to 6,700 m (22,000 ft); [10] it feeds on stray insects that are blown up the mountain by the wind. [11] The springtail Hypogastrura nivicola (one of several insects called snow fleas) also lives in the Himalayas.
Skeleton of a Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) on display at the Museum of OsteologyAlthough most goat-antelopes are gregarious and have fairly stocky builds, they diverge in many other ways – the muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is adapted to the extreme cold of the tundra; the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) of North America is specialised for very rugged terrain; the urial (Ovis orientalis ...
The Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica) is a goat-antelope that lives in the Pyrenees and Cantabrian Mountains of Spain, France and Andorra, and the Apennine Mountains of central Italy. It is one of the two species of the genus Rupicapra , the other being the chamois , Rupicapra rupicapra .