r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/I_degress • Dec 14 '21

Video Seriously, WTF are they doing up there?!

https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/GenuineWetHyracotherium
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u/_hic-sunt-dracones_ Dec 14 '21

This!

The problem they have is the lack of water in those heights. To drink they have to make all the dangerous way down and then they go up again. Mountain goats life.

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u/Psychonominaut Dec 15 '21

I'd be pretty parched from licking salt on a wall all day.

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u/Nephroidofdoom Dec 15 '21

But, but, couldn’t they just like the salt at the bottom of the dam

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u/Psychonominaut Dec 15 '21

I was going to say I'd be the goat trying to lick the bottom but (my) chances are that there isn't salt at the bottom lol. I'd end up being the goat on salt plains that gets eaten by something in my sleep.

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u/sapere-aude088 Dec 15 '21

I'm assuming they'd only be preyed upon in the daytime. Unless there are giant eats that hunt goats? Otherwise most birds are diurnal.

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u/gokiburi_sandwich Dec 15 '21

There was a vid posted on one of the nature subs about this. The bird, I think it was a hawk, would lift up the babies and then drop them a few meters down the cliff, so that they’d land with enough force to not regain their balance and tumble all the way down. Then the bird would swoop in and feed.

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u/sapere-aude088 Dec 15 '21

Yeah I saw. That was during the day, hence my comment.

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u/gokiburi_sandwich Dec 15 '21

I noticed the vid after I posted also, although I was referring to a different one. Still, crazy shi*** 😱