🐃Mountain goat
The mountain goat, also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a cloven-footed mammal that is endemic to the remote and rugged mountainous areas of western North America. A subalpine to truly alpine species, it is a sure-footed climber commonly seen on sheer rock faces, near-vertical cliffs and icy passages. Mountain goats generally avoid venturing down into lower elevations—except during seasonal food shortages or during particularly bad weather—as the extreme elevation of their habitat is the primary defense against predators such as black and brown bears, pumas and wolves.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 77 kg
- Body length
- 1.45 m
- Shoulder height
- 1.01 m
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 21 years
Everything we know about the Mountain goat
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass77 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 90 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.45 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Shoulder height1.01 maverageOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: male.
By sex
- Male1.01 mCarr & Smith 1990, tabulated in Alberta Sustainable Resource Development 2003, Management Plan for Mountain Goats in Alberta, Wildlife Management Planning Series 7, Table 1, https://archive.org/details/managementplanfo00albe_3Table 1 'Mountain goat morphology', row Adult / Male / >24 months: weight 70-120 kg, total length 125-180 cm, "Shoulder Height (cm)" "92-110", reference "Carr and Smith 1990". Midpoint of the range. Yearlings (both sexes) 62 cm (Wigal & Coggins 1982, same table). The Mammalian Species account (63) gives no adult shoulder height -- only a newborn "13.5 inches (343 mm) high at the shoulder".
Maximum lifespan21 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 21 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length7.84 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.6 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation183 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 184 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range18 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l77 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Mountain goat yet: top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusOreamnos
- ›speciesOreamnos americanus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- subfamilyCaprinae
- genusOreamnos
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyCaprinae
- genusOreamnos
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