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Videos of the Week 10 2012/13 | Extreme Goats

Alpine Ibex mountain goats: climbing artists and extreme gourmets

by Tobias Kurzeder 01/11/2013
At the almost vertical 50-meter-high Cingino Dam in northern Italy, goats have developed a peculiar tactic to get at particularly tasty herbs that grow in cracks between the blocks of the dam wall.

At the almost vertical 50-metre-high Cingino Dam in northern Italy, goats have developed a peculiar tactic to get to particularly tasty herbs that grow in cracks between the blocks of the dam wall.

The Alpine Ibex mountain goats climb up the almost vertical dam. And not just up, no, they also have to get back down again.

The PG editorial team is not aware of the fatality rate among the free-climbing goats. They're crazy, those goats!

Here's a report on the goat phenomenon from National Geographic

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