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Rocky Mountain goat   /rˈɑki mˈaʊntən goʊt/   Listen
Rocky Mountain goat

noun
1.
Sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America.  Synonyms: mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus.






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"Rocky mountain goat" Quotes from Famous Books



... agility, endurance, and vitality, and gives many examples of their ability to get about among most difficult rocks when wounded. He adds: "From my experience with these animals, I believe they seek quite as rugged a country in which to make their homes as does the Rocky Mountain goat. They brave higher latitudes and live in regions in every way more barren and forbidding." He reports the females with their lambs as generally keeping to the high table lands far back in the mountains. Among the specimens which he recently collected, broken jaw bones ...
— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various



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