Mammal number 1

This is a picture of a mountain goat. Mountain Goats are about 4ft tall. These goats are not true goats, but they are relitivly close to a goat. Mountain goats perfer steep rocky areas with cliffs or bluffs in alpine or sub alpine regions. Mountain goats are stout bodied with a thick coat made up of white hairs with some brown intermixed dorsally, they have pure black horns, they do not shed these horns annual growth rings increase the horn size. In this way, the age of the goat can be determined by counting the number of annual growth rings. The male's horn, however, curves back greater than the females. These animals are about 49-70 inches in length. After about 3 years the males are usually about 7.5 to 15 cm talled than the female, and they weigh  between 124 lbs to 179 lbs. These goats eat it generally consists of grasses, woody plants, mosses, lichens, herbaceous plants, and other vegetation. and get most of their water from their food and year round snowbanks. The animals that usually eat the Mountain goat are cougars, grizzly bears, wolves, golden eagles, coyotes, blackbears, and bobcats. These animals breed one time a year in the late fall and early winter, so that means breeding season is from late October thru November. A young for a Mountain goat is called a flank the average flunk a Mountain goat has is 1 to 3 a year. the age they are sexualy reproductive is 2.5 years.