they are very soft.
Mountain goat
reamnos americanus
Visual Appearance
A hairy bearded goat
Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: bovidae
Size
Height: 39 inches
Length: 47-70
Weight: 180-280lbs
Environment
Where Found: Western Cordillera of North America, from Washington, Idaho and Montana through British Columbia and Alberta, into the southern Yukon and southeastern Alaska
Habitat: rocky mountains
Diet: grasses, herbs, sedges, ferns, mosses, lichens, and twigs and leaves from the low-growing shrubs and conifers
Factoids
- They have beards.
- pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast did incorporate their wool into their weaving by collecting spring moulted wool left by wild goats.
- Their horns have age rings.