Wednesday, 18 December 2013

What's That Clinging To The Towering Wall And Why Doesn't It Fall Off?

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Maybe you've seen this before. It's totally amazing. We're in northern Italy looking at the face of the Cingino Dam, and here and there on the vertical stone wall, you'll see a few dark specks. They look like protruding rocks, or maybe some kind of metal studs, but lean in, and you'll see they have what seem to be... legs.

These are goats, Alpine ibexes. Also known as the steinbock, they are a species of wild goat that live in the mountains of the European Alps.

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