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Title: The Canadian field-naturalist
Identifier: canadianfieldnat1967otta (find matches)
Year: 1967 (1960s)
Authors: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
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Publisher: Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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1967 Holroyd: Rocky Mountain Goats 13
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Figure 5. Nanny with five month old kid in October, showing heavy winter coat almost completely grown in. elevations. As the snow line on the range gradually moves lower in the fall, the goats would move down with it until in late November or early December they would arrive back on their winter range at the lower levels. From observations of feeding goats, it appears that the winter food is largely of browse while most of the summer forage is grasses and grasslike plants. Red ossier dogwood (Cormis stolofiifera) was very heavily browsed in winter on the lower slopes while willow (Salix petrophilia), Douglas fir, aspen and buffalo berry (Shepherdia cmiadensis) were also utilized. Availability of water on this range is little problem. Wind in the winter deposits huge snow banks and cornices which may last most of the summer, and there are a few seepage springs at high elevations. In the past two summers I have not known these goats to be forced to lower range because of lack of water. Travel I noticed that when kids are very young their mothers travel constantly below and beside them as if to protect them from a fall. By the time the kids were a week or ten days old, however, they could be seen trailing along close behind their mothers. Goats cannot climb where a man cannot go but in many cases it would take a competent climber to follow one. They appear to have the advantage of being absolutely unafraid of any height. Under normal travel conditions they are very deliberate about how and where they go. In

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