McKendrick Report 8 Mountain Goats

The herd recovered from their escape from backcountry skiers. Now they battle deep snow to survive until warm spring weather arrives. We report on the population of the herd. Two new kids were born last June but one goat has disappeared this winter. Mountain goats face many hazards on steep cliffs at the edge of alpine.

[@JaredFrasier]

So cool - thank you for getting this winter footage!

[@ianspingle8865]

Still think the mountains of newfoundland and labrador should have mountain goat's.

[@indyreno2933]

Scientific names of all twenty-two extant ovibovine species:
1) Arabitragus jayakari - Arabian Tahr
2) Nilgiritragus hylocrius - Nilgiri Tahr
3) Hemitragus jemlahicus - Himalayan Tahr
4) Rupicapra asiatica - Asiatic Chamois
5) Rupicapra ornata - Italian Chamois
6) Rupicapra rupicapra - Alpine Chamois
7) Rupicapra pyrenaica - Western Chamois
8) Capricornis bangladeshiensis - Bangladeshi Serow
9) Capricornis rubidus - Red Serow
10) Capricornis maritimus - Indochinese Serow
11) Capricornis sumatraensis - Sumatran Serow
12) Capricornis thar - Himalayan Serow
13) Capricornis milneedwardsii - Chinese Serow
14) Capricornis swinhoei - Formosan Serow
15) Capricornis crispus - Japanese Serow
16) Naemorhedus baileyi - Red Goral
17) Naemorhedus goral - Himalayan Goral
18) Naemorhedus griseus - Chinese Goral
19) Naemorhedus caudatus - Long-Tailed Goral
20) Oreamnos americanus - Mountain Goat
21) Budorcas taxicolor - Takin
22) Ovibos moschatus - Muskox

[@oreamnos2012]

A very nice list indeed. Our mountain goats are the oreamnos americanus toward the bottom of the list. The serow and goral are the closest relative to our goats and they all reside in eastern asia.

[@indyreno2933]

That is correct, the gorals, mountain goat, and serows are ovibovines that are under the tribe Naemorhedini, which also contains the chamoises, which officially divides ovibovines (subfamily Ovibovinae) into three tribes: Hemitragini (Tahrs), Naemorhedini (Gorals, Mountain Goat, Serows, and Chamoises), and Ovibovini (Muskox and Takin), Naemorhedini and Ovibovini are most closely related to each other, while the tahrs (tribe Hemitragini) are basal to both, within the Naemorhedini tribe, the gorals are the closest living relatives of the mountain goat and the serows are the second closest, leaving the chamoises the most basal of the Naemorhedini tribe.