. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ever been ex-hibited in Zoo-logical Gardens, one is in Ee- gents Park and the other at animal is a goat only in name, its affin-ities being with the Antelopes. It is larger than a sheep, old males weighing fully 300 pounds, and has a long, Solemn face, a shaggy white coat, and slen-der polished black horns which suggest those of the Chamois. Its home is among the crags, snow-banks and gla-ciers of the lofty mountains of the north-west, far above the regions in which most animals live. In suchsurroundings its
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ever been ex-hibited in Zoo-logical Gardens, one is in Ee- gents Park and the other at animal is a goat only in name, its affin-ities being with the Antelopes. It is larger than a sheep, old males weighing fully 300 pounds, and has a long, Solemn face, a shaggy white coat, and slen-der polished black horns which suggest those of the Chamois. Its home is among the crags, snow-banks and gla-ciers of the lofty mountains of the north-west, far above the regions in which most animals live. In suchsurroundings its range extends from theEocky Mountains in Idaho and the Cascadesin Washington northward through BritishColumbia and the coast ranges of Alaska toKenai Peninsula. But the rugged peaks itinhabits, bleak and barren as they are instormy weather, are not wholly inhospitable,for in summer the little hollows among therocks are carpeted with flowering ^heathersand other beautiful alpine plants, \ and aresought as nesting-places by the ptiJirmigan, titlark and other A YOUNG MALE EOCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. The MountainGoat is rathera stupid beast,and where notoften disturbedis easilyapproached,especially fromabove. Hisenemies, asidefrom man, arefew. In summer,in the southernpart ofhis range,he is said to behunted by boththe grizzly bearand the moun-tain lion, andin the northernpart by the bigbrown bears ofAlaska; but itis not likely thatsuch heavy andclumsy animalsas bears cancatch such nat-ural-born rockclimbers asgoats, unlesssuddenly sur-prised or cor-nered in someplace fromwhich there is nopossible escape.
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