Mountain Goat on Mountain Top - Photo from Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThere appears to be quite the divide between the females (called nannies) and the males (called billies) as they live very different lifestyles.\u00a0 The nannies will usually live in herds with their young (called kids).\u00a0 This group of nannies and kids can reach as many as twenty individuals.\u00a0 Meanwhile the billies will go out and live on their own.\u00a0 Occasionally, they will find a couple of male roommates to help split rent.\u00a0 Basically, the billies live the bachelor life while the nannies take care of the kids.<\/p>\n
Mountain Goat Fast Fact – <\/strong>Come spring time the nanny goat will give birth to one or two kids.\u00a0 Amazingly these kids are born on their feet and ready to climb.\u00a0 I guess you could say the kids are just born climbers.\u00a0 It is a good thing too since they need to move around to find food on the sparse mountain tops.<\/p>\nSo we are down to our last Wild Fact for Animals of the Canadian Rockies.\u00a0 I will make sure we end it with one of the most exciting animals found in the mountains.\u00a0 Oh wait, Bigfoot isn’t real, is he?\u00a0 I guess I will have to come up with another animal for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Enjoy the rest of your day folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You can’t have a Wild Facts theme of Animals of the Canadian Rockies without talking about the Mountain Goat, could you?\u00a0 Today we are going to look at one of the most sure-footed animals on this planet.\u00a0 The Mountain Goat can be found on the highest peaks of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska through Canada and into the northern United States.\u00a0 Regardless of their name, the Mountain Goat is not a true goat, however, they are closely related to goats.\u00a0 In order to be correct they are usually classed as goat-antelopes.\u00a0 I have to admit calling them Mountain Goat-Antelopes does <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1264,60,4024],"tags":[348,1280,1278,1279,697,1277,1276,1281,4025],"yoast_head":"\n
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