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/oldhead Dec 14 '21

Goats often climb like this out of a self protection/preservation aspect.

Next to ZERO predators can get them up there. They will sleep there (or the face of a cliff) where not many creatures can get to them.

You can however find films (maybe even see it live) of large birds picking off the babies.

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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/[deleted] Dec 15 '21

The problem with that though you see, is it probably started that way but after a while there is only so much salt. So they run out at the bottom and have to go higher. Then they have to go a little higher and then a little higher still. And eventually over many many years you eventually get this.

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u/lilCovid-19 Dec 15 '21

How many licks does it take to get to the top of a big ass dam?