The Alpine ibex goats, which typically live in very steep and rocky terrain at altitudes of up to 4,600 metres, lick saltpetre and other minerals off the walls. The pictures of the dam high in the ...

in the region of Piedmont THESE gravity-defying goats dice with death on a daily basis after scaling the side of a near-vertical 160 foot dam - just to lick the walls. They appear to be nonchalant ...

But zoom in a bit more and those specs become goats standing on the seemingly vertical construction ... of calcium and magnesium. The goats lick the walls and get the minerals that are important ...

Mountain goats subside primarily on plants, but also like to lick salt, and some of the accompanying images show to what extreme vertical heights these amazing beasts will reach in order to obtain ...

That's pretty much the four-word summation of a new study looking at what happens when goats and sheep compete for salt licks – naturally occurring deposits of salt – above the tree line in ...

Humans can erect walls hundreds of feet high ... as just another natural part of the landscape. via Snopes Biology goats Science Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily.

What's cooler than a goat? A dam goat ... The Alpine ibex near a not-quite-vertical dam in Spain have taken to climbing the dam to lick the salt that forms on the rocks, balancing themselves ...

These are goats, Alpine ibexes. They're here because this wall is rich with salt, a mineral they crave, so they've come to lick ... sheep go bounding up a vertical wall, the writer Ellen Meloy ...

A mountain goat’s ... visit a mineral lick. In places where they’ve evolved together, like Glacier Park, the two species can probably negotiate necessary access to the salt resources.

it is exposing once unavailable salt deposits coveted by animals far and wide. Both mountain goats and bighorn sheep are flocking to lick up sodium and other crucial nutrients they need to survive.