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Rocky Mountain goat

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Rocky Mountain goat

n
(Animals) a sure-footed goat antelope, Oreamnos americanus, inhabiting the Rocky Mountains. It has thick white hair and black backward-curving horns
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Rock′y Moun′tain goat′


n.
a long-haired, white wild goat, Oreamnos americanus, of W North America, having short black horns.
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Noun1.Rocky Mountain goat - sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North AmericaRocky Mountain goat - sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America
goat antelope - bovid related to goats but having antelope-like features: mountain goats; gorals; serows; chamois; gnu goats
genus Oreamnos, Oreamnos - mountain goats
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probably has the continent's best Rocky Mountain goat hunting and consistently produces the largest Canadian moose.
At the family-run Just Kidding Acres, 19 baby goats roam freely during the small-group sessions hosted by Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga ($25, rockymountamgoat yoga.com) Cofounder Jim Naron says it's the billies' sociable and goofy personalities that people respond to most "They do things you don't see any other animals do," says Naron.
Thirteen special big game tags grossed $517,000 and included the first auction for an Oregon Rocky Mountain Goat tag, which sold for $30,000.
In 35 years, I've drawn three sheep tags, two Shiras moose tags and one Rocky Mountain goat tag.
"Yes," I said laughing, "and Dad'll say..." (it was an attempt at imitating Dad pretending to be cross) "...'Who's carved my initials up there?' " "And I'll say; 'A Rocky Mountain goat. No.
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I got my Rocky Mountain goat last year in the Yukon.
This includes such big game as deer, elk, moose, caribou, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, rocky Mountain goat, black bear, wild board, and javelina.
But in this high country lives one of the hearties ad most sure-footed animals in the world--the Rocky Mountain goat. The goat makes its way up the mountains, scaling rocks that look impossible to climb.
The Rocky Mountain goat must rank as one of North Americas most underrated game animals.
Most rifle elk and all rifle deer hunting in Eastern Oregon, and all pronghorn, bighorn sheep and Rocky Mountain goat hunts are limited entry.
To make the bowhunter's record book, a Rocky Mountain goat must score 40 points or more.

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