Re: Well its not dinosaurian, but nevertheless ..............

[Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>]

The late alpinist and mountain/nature photographer Galen Rowell once 
wrote about an encounter he had with mountain goats.  He was part of a 
team trying to climb a big mountain, I believe in Alaska or the Canadian 
Rockies, and high on the mountain they were faced with a very steep rock 
face that they could not negotiate.  After a number of failed attempts 
they sat and contemplated the situation.  While sitting on the ledge 
Rowell remarked that a  mountain goat came up and with little effort 
nimbly hopped and jumped up and across the cliff face that had stymied them.

And all without an opposable thumb.....

Dan


On 11/3/2010 6:44 PM, Richard W. Travsky wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Dann Pigdon wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 4th, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This is of such astounding neontological curiosity, that I pass it 
> > > on as
> > > members of this list would, I hope, find it of some interest.
> > >
> > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1320804/Mountain-goats-climb-160ft-near-vertical- 
> > Cingino-dam.html
> >
> > Animals will go to astounding lengths (or heights!) to address 
> > mineral deficiancies. In Mt Elgon
> > National Park in Kenya there are elephants that have been mining salt 
> > from caves quite possibly
> > for thousands of years.
>
> Check out this recent mountain goat picture frmo the current nat geo 
> issue (cover story on migrations)
>
> http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/11/great-migrations/img/08-mountain-goat-714.jpg 
>
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/245e7qr