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In Canada, the mountain goat is found primarily in British Columbia; this North American species inhabits the Rocky Mountain zone from southern Alaska to Washington State and parts of Montana and Idaho.
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Mountain Goat
The Mountain Goat has long white hair and is square-looking. It has small black horns, humped shoulders, and sharp hoofs.
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Mountain GoatMammal. Mountain goats are not true goats, they belong to a group known as goat- antelope. Unlike the ridged, curved horns of true goats, the mountain goat's horns are only slightly curved and nearly smooth.
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Mountain Goat
Oreamnos americanus
Who would believe that a hoofed animal could live on the icy face of a sheer cliff under frigid winter conditions? Mountain Goats can.
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Mountain Goat Profile Mountain goats are not true goats-but they are close relatives. They are more properly known as goat- antelopes.
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Mountain goat - OREAMNOS AMERICANUS
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Even-toed Mammals (Artiodactyla)
Family: Bovidae.
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The Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) is sometimes also called Rocky Mountain Goat. It is a native American goat which occurs in the high Rockies of the western United States and Canada.
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see Rocky Mountain goat. More on Mountain GoatRocky Mountain Goat - hoofed ruminant mammal, Oreamnos americanus, found in the high mountains of S Alaska, W Canada, and the extreme NW United States.
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Rock Solid Footing: Mountain goats are considered the best rock climbers in North America and readily move along small ledges, up steep slopes and across deep chasms.
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Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) Species Code: ORAM Description: The Mountain Goat is a large mammal covered with long creamy white hair to keep the goat warm in the winter months (see photos).
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Rocky Mountain goatTaxonomy Oreamnos americanus [de Blainville, 1816]. Citation: Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816:80. Type locality: USA, Washington, Mt. Adams. Click on the pictures above for a larger view of the photographs ...
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Mountain Goat
Description
Distinguishing Features - Length: Male 1.8 m, Female 1.4. Weight: Male 57 - 100 kg. Female 40 - 85 kg. Colour: creamy white, sometimes with a brownish dorsal line or yellowish wash. Black lips, nostrils, hooves and horns.
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Mountain Goats live on remarkably steep, craggy cliffs for most of their lives, spending only about a quarter of their time in less forbidding meadows and nearby fields.
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The Rocky Mountain goat belongs to the antelope tribe. Other animal pictures Need more info type in animal name then put info at the end ...
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Additional mammals regularly taken include mice, martens, foxes, young deer and mountain goats[9]. The secondary important prey group for eagles are other birds.
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Major threats to the snow leopard species include overhunting of the leopard's prey, such as wild mountain goats and sheep, and the direct poaching of snow leopards for the fur trade.
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Wolves will eat moose, deer, caribou, beavers, elk, bighorn sheep, oxen, rabbits, squirrels, waterfowl, mice, mountain goats, and fruit and vegetation.
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Although not as well built for climbing as mountain goats, Bighorn Sheep zigzag up and down cliff faces with amazing ease. They use ledges only 2 inches wide for footholds, and bounce from ledge to ledge over spans as wide as 20 feet.
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Both males and females also mark with it. The klipspringer is as surefooted as a mountain goat, and when it is pursued it leaps from crag to crag and seems to bound up the side of a steep cliff as if it were flying.
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In the tundra biome there are many animals. They are wolves, lemmings, caribou, musk oxen, polar bears, ptarmigans, snowy owls, geese, and plovers. In the alpine tundra there are deer, elk, mountain goats and various species of sheep.
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 See also: Goat, Weasel, Bull, Ray, Sheep
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