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Offline Pat B

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Dam animals!
« on: February 28, 2011, 04:29:47 pm »
I thought this was pretty cool...










These are European Ibex on a dam face in Italy. They are eating lichens and salt from the dam face.
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Offline John K

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« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2011, 04:42:45 pm »
Wow ! Pretty cool !
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Offline ErictheViking

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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2011, 04:48:15 pm »
That  is just amazing!  gives you a new respect for the terrain you may have to hunt these things in.
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2011, 04:48:23 pm »
That's pretty dam cool!   8)
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Offline NTD

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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2011, 04:59:25 pm »
Family site guys...watch the language... ;D

Pat,  That is pretty cool, do you know where it is?
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Re: Dam animals!
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2011, 05:33:49 pm »
Hahaha - now that's cool!
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« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2011, 06:25:14 pm »
Nate, it is on the Diga del Cingino Dam in Italy If that helps.  ;D
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Offline Matt S.

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« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2011, 06:31:58 pm »
And here I thought this thread was going to be about beavers when I read the title ;D
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« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2011, 07:27:22 pm »
What the ?  :o
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2011, 09:01:30 pm »
Woah that is incredible that they get up on that thing.
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« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2011, 05:30:50 am »
Sure is incredible! I've seen stuff like that on film; craziest is when they turn around and walk back to where they came from, or the fawns doing flippy jumps. Mountain goat and chamois fawns act even crazier I believe.
Have seen photos of goats climbing trees to feed on leaves.
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« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2011, 09:37:50 am »
Now that is cool,them critters can go anywhere. :)
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Offline Parnell

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« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2011, 11:49:12 am »
Amazing!  I can't imagine how they can turn around!
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« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2011, 01:24:18 pm »
Quote from: Parnell on March 01, 2011, 11:49:12 am
Amazing!  I can't imagine how they can turn around!

Kinda makes 'em sitting targets, eh?  ;)


Surely I can't be the only one thinking that?!
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2011, 03:47:21 pm »
Quote from: HatchA on March 01, 2011, 01:24:18 pm
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Kinda makes 'em sitting targets, eh?  ;)

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No Hatch, it does not. They'll move faster up and down and square and across than a human being could move straight on a freshly mowed English lawn!  ;D ;D ;D

These here are chamois, not ibex, but that doesn't make a difference, they move through the same habitats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN7ESiUxSuI
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