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Mountain Goat

Oreamnos americana

A captivating, but rarely seen, dweller of the Western U.S' mountains, the mountain goat 

Habitat:

Alpine and subalpine areas of North America's Western Cordillera

Status:

Least concern

Weight:

99-310 pounds

Length:

4-6 feet

A member of the Bovidae family, along with cows, sheep, and goats, the mountain goat is the only wild goat native to the U.S. 

Living almost entirely in alpine and subalpine conditions, the mountain goat is by nature of its habitat one of the rarer mammal species to see. Geographically, it lives in the western U.S and Canada in the Rocky and Cascade mountain ranges, from Colorado and Utah in the south to southern Alaska and the Yukon in the North.

Interestingly, a smaller relative, Oreamnos harringtoni, inhabited the Rocky mountains south of the suitable range for the living mountain goat.

This large, white caprine is actually not a true goat but is in fact closer related to the Himilayan takin, another caprine.

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The mountain goat eats ferns, grasses, herbaceous plants, mosses, sedges, and lichens.

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Cougars, wolverines, wolves, bears, and bobcats all prey on mountain goats: golden and bald eagles are known to prey on young. However, mountain goats can be very aggressive and dangerous when threatened and have been known to attack, and very rarely kill, humans. A mountain goat even killed a grizzly in Canada in 2021.

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