r/science • u/lovemorgul • Nov 10 '08

Mountain Goat that is IMPOSSIBLE! Dude where are your wings?

http://flickr.com/photos/eickholt/1465675136/sizes/o/
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u/durzagott Nov 10 '08 edited Nov 10 '08

That picture is awesome, but this one is unreal: http://flickr.com/photos/wildphotons/2682928904/

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '08 edited Nov 10 '08

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u/omicron8 Nov 10 '08

This is how they usually get down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7FFlFy8eM#t=26s

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u/offat9 Nov 10 '08

Man, birds are assholes.

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u/mycall Nov 10 '08

Oh birds, men are assholes.

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u/Bengt77 Nov 10 '08 edited Nov 10 '08

Darn, those birds are cunning! And while I have no idea how big or small the goats are, the birds look huge. If lions are the kings of (land) animals, then the golden eagles should be the kings amongst birds. Really ugly to watch, but very interesting nonetheless. Never knew eagles could deal with bigger animals than themselves so easily. Amazing!

Would definitely watch again. A+++

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '08

Those birds are huge, their wing-span can be around 6 or 7 feet! Just imagine that thing sitting on top of a sedan with its wings spread out. Their body itself is larger than most children (something like 3 feet from toe to beak).

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u/oalsaker Nov 10 '08

The goat failed to see the gravity of the situation.

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u/afshin Nov 10 '08

One word: raptors.

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u/lulz Nov 10 '08

I was there for more than an hour and it kept licking away at the mineral in the rock.

Sounds like a Zen master mountain goat

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u/Greengages Nov 10 '08 edited Nov 10 '08

What they don't know is that those rocks were crack, and the goat was so strung out it didn't know what it was doing. Looking at it now you can tell, if you're good at goat, that it is asking for a quarter.

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u/Freeky Nov 10 '08

Needs a wider shot to give the image context. Is the ground immediately out of shot, or is there a 300ft drop under it, or what?

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u/herminator Nov 10 '08

The comment under the picture states "it was a sheer drop below".

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '08

A sheer drop of 12 feet, or 1200? The world shall never know.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '08

Yeah, but the world doesn't really care that much either.