Still Waters Posted October 16, 2013 #1 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Footage from the dam in the Gran Paradiso National Park in Northern Italy shows the Alpine ibexes about half way down the rocky wall. The goats appear to easily walk along the bricks of the wall despite the fact that it is a near vertical face. http://www.telegraph...rtical-dam.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted October 16, 2013 #2 Share Posted October 16, 2013 What you can't see is that they have special suction cups in lieu of hooves that allow them to "stick" to natural surfaces. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderOTD Posted October 16, 2013 #3 Share Posted October 16, 2013 I wish I had spiderman powers as well 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted October 17, 2013 #4 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Spidergoat! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted October 17, 2013 #5 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Amazing, and I know people who can barely stand up on level ground. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortyStuff Posted October 17, 2013 #6 Share Posted October 17, 2013 If the cheapskates would put out a few salt/mineral blocks the goats wouldn't need to risk their lives in such precarious positions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiloh17 Posted October 17, 2013 #7 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Dam crazy goats 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted October 17, 2013 #8 Share Posted October 17, 2013 I am struck as to how seemingly fearless such animals are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stegosaurus Posted October 17, 2013 #9 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Wow, I couldn't imagine seeing that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava_Lady Posted October 17, 2013 #10 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Amazing captures! I could have done without all that new age music though. It doesn't fit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava_Lady Posted October 17, 2013 #11 Share Posted October 17, 2013 If the cheapskates would put out a few salt/mineral blocks the goats wouldn't need to risk their lives in such precarious positions. Climbing is what goats do... they live in the mountains and climb it's their nature. They would do it regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted October 17, 2013 #12 Share Posted October 17, 2013 I am struck as to how seemingly fearless such animals are. It probably helps they have no real conception of what happens when an accelerating object meets and immovable solid surface, or of death for that matter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted October 17, 2013 #13 Share Posted October 17, 2013 It probably helps they have no real conception of what happens when an accelerating object meets and immovable solid surface, or of death for that matter. True enough. I've seen this type of behavior in extremely dangerous "free rock climbing" with some humans. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaranne Posted October 17, 2013 #14 Share Posted October 17, 2013 That was mind blowing... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted October 18, 2013 #15 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I can hardly stand to watch them. We saw them on rock cliff faces in parts of the Appalachians too ! Unbelievable the way they can do that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted October 18, 2013 #16 Share Posted October 18, 2013 It seems almost impossible what these goats can do yet they seem to be doing it and quite easily too. I just hope none of them fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava_Lady Posted October 18, 2013 #17 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I can hardly stand to watch them. We saw them on rock cliff faces in parts of the Appalachians too ! Unbelievable the way they can do that. They truly are amazing climbers. We have little goats in Hawaii that climb our sheer hills and mountain faces and those have loose rock and gravel yet they never fall. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissMelsWell Posted October 18, 2013 #18 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I've seen a longer version of this video that shows more of their movement up the dam. It's quite incredible! A friend of mine has five small goats, they're probably pygmy goats... even those things are super climbers. She regularly finds them on the roof of the barn and to this day, she can't figure out how they get up there. LOL. She's dying to catch them in the act. LOL. She usually sends her husband up there to get them with their homemade "goat sling" it's like a tarp on a rope he puts them into then lowers them back to the ground. I'm guessing they can probably get down on their own, but she's never let them try. LOL. Or she's hoping her husband will plummet to his death... I haven't decided which it is. LOL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiloh17 Posted October 18, 2013 #19 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Hmmm, If I slip, I'll probably float down. <------ What goats really think. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted October 18, 2013 #20 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Show-offs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnie Darko Posted October 18, 2013 #21 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Goats are awesome! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted October 18, 2013 #22 Share Posted October 18, 2013 They are probably wondering what happened to their food source: "its got to be among all this concrete somewhere?" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeraldgemheart Posted October 18, 2013 #23 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I bet they would say this if they would talk: "Hahaha, scre* gravity!" (I didn't want to get in trouble with the people in charge here, so I censored it.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted October 19, 2013 #24 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Goats have "cloven hooves", right? How they can do this is beyond me. It's like Madonna scaling Hoover Dam with split high-heel shoes. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libstaK Posted October 19, 2013 #25 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Spider goat, spider goat, does whatever a spider goat can *best sung in the voice of Homer Simpson*. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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