Mountain goats survive where few others can. #goat #mountaingoat #naturepbs #animals #pbs

"First Steps | Born in the Rockies" premiered on November 10, 2021, on PBS!


---------------

[Luhbraindead]

How majestic & steadfast.
Love their display of strength, elegance all while stoic or rather inquisitive look going about their face

[twinflowerfioretta]

It is my first time i see mountain goats - what a beautiful and incredible species, the baby goats must be very good trained to not fall to death - good parents 💕

[DR-svke]

I've always wondered how warm animals that live in conditions like these are.

[saibibinkeli]

So CUTE beautiful and strong CAN LIVE WITH ALL weather conditions
So amazing 💪💪💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍👍

[maryperkovich-wvwn]

Thank you Father in heaven for such beauty❤

[henrimatisse]

God supplied this wisdom Job 39. Job in his distress called out God and in several chapters God answers him with "do you know how?"

[sonofmankind]

enrolled in the ultimate master class!!!

[HumphreyAlphaandOmega]

I have a plush of the mountain goat. 😊😊😊😊

[indyreno]

Bovids are hoofed mammals that comprise the family Bovidae, living bovids range in size from the royal antelope to the gaur, living bovids are only found in North America, Eurasia, and Africa, all bovids have a single sharp end on each horn, this is present in both males and females, males tend to have longer horns than females, as the largest and most diverse family of living hoofed mammals, there are over one-hundred-and-sixty-four extant species within seventy-two genera, ten subfamilies and three major clades, the major clades are the primitive clade, the cattle-like clade, and the goat-like clade, the primitive clade consists of three subfamilies: Ovibovinae (Muskox, Takin, Gorals, Mountain Goat, Serows, Chamoises, and Tahrs), Hippotraginae (Grazing Antelope), and Alcelaphinae (Hartebeests, Wildebeests, Damalisks, and Hirola), the cattle-like clade consists of three subfamilies: Peleinae (Rhebok), Reduncinae (Reedbucks, Lechwes, Kob, Puku, and Waterbuck), and Bovinae (Cattle, Spiral-Horned Antelope, Nilgai, and Chousingha), and the goat-like clade consists of four subfamilies: Caprinae (Goats and Sheep), Antilopinae (Gazelles and True Antelope), Cephalophinae (Duikers), and Neotraginae (Dwarf Antelope).

[inquisitiveterrestrian]

I bet they’ve been absent ever since we founded Rome…