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NO WAY, "Magnetic-Hoofs" Mountaineer Extraordinaire! NO WAY!

flickr.com — Spectacular view of a Rocky Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) climbing a steep, sheer mountain face in Jasper National Park, Canada. Photographer: Francesco L

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vroom101, on 11/15/2008, -32/+32Photo and some description details via: http://flickr.com/photos/14326662@N05/1585279209/
See also:
#1. http://flickr.com/photos/soulcity/494983161/sizes/ ... via http://flickr.com/photos/soulcity/494983161/
#2. http://static.flickr.com/3035/2605375878_5b7da10ab ... via http://flickr.com/photos/terratripper/2605375878/
#3. http://flickr.com/photos/funkybee/181720424/sizes/ ... via http://flickr.com/photos/funkybee/181720424/
#4. http://flickr.com/photos/27846803@N08/2596856354/s ... via http://flickr.com/photos/27846803@N08/2596856354/
#5. http://flickr.com/photos/76104306@N00/164167387/
#6. http://flickr.com/photos/daryl-hunter/2327272538/
#7. http://flickr.com/photos/farfbaz/2536669716/sizes/ ... via http://flickr.com/photos/farfbaz/2536669716/
#8. http://flickr.com/photos/andree-debashish/13042719 ... via http://flickr.com/photos/andree-debashish/13042719 ... (flickr.com/photos/andree-debashish/1304271960/)

#9. http://flickr.com/photos/65206550@N00/126705294/si ... via http://flickr.com/photos/65206550@N00/126705294/
#10. Stranded -- http://flickr.com/photos/bakpacker/1241525668/
#11. http://flickr.com/photos/mingmong/2829403231/sizes ... via http://flickr.com/photos/mingmong/2829403231/
- vroom101, on 11/15/2008, -2/+8#12. "King of the Mountain" by Douglas Chadwick (National Wildlife, August/September 1997, Vol. 35 No. 5): http://www.nwf.org/NationalWildlife/article.cfm?is ... (www.nwf.org/NationalWildlife/article.cfm?issueID=13&articleID=99)
- 80hd, on 11/16/2008, -2/+31I hope you get some perverted kick out of gaming the system and repeatedly front paging your goat collection....
  - kelmaster1, on 11/16/2008, -1/+6holy *****, you weren't kidding. Check this guy's profile... Talk about a digg whore.
- ZeMeisterstuck, on 11/16/2008, -2/+11I love you. More goats. More goats. More goats.
- tawnee, on 11/16/2008, -5/+2#5 was clearly photoshopped.
  - jftitan, on 11/16/2008, -2/+1I see what you did there
adlep, on 11/15/2008, -2/+80So...you like goats....
I see...
:-P
- kvgirard, on 11/16/2008, -1/+0really? NO WAY! NO WAY!
  - ryanhayn, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1WAY!
- RadioFreeOpium, on 11/16/2008, -1/+2You goatse?
- betheturtle, on 11/16/2008, -2/+1Yo dawg, we heard you liked goats, so we threw your car down a cliff.
paradisetonight, on 11/15/2008, -6/+22spider goat, spider goat, radioactive spider goat
- wicketr, on 11/16/2008, -3/+2radioactive? How bout roided up. That is one hella muscular goat.
- otdvash, on 11/16/2008, -2/+1groan.
- wondertwins, on 11/16/2008, -2/+1too much fallout eh?
mnortei, on 11/16/2008, -2/+50W4ll h4x!!!
- absentmindedjwc, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2idclip?
- badenglishihave, on 11/16/2008, -2/+1Especially since the title is "Magnetic-Hoofs" and the last time I checked rocks weren't full of magnetic material.
  - theaceoffire, on 11/16/2008, -2/+1Go search "Rare Earth Magnets"
homerowedasdf, on 11/16/2008, -1/+12this is nothing for that animal. i was watching a documentary and you wouldn't believe the kind of things they climb
- mushoo, on 11/16/2008, -0/+3COWS!
  
  http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/0 ...
- SnakeLemma, on 11/16/2008, -2/+3thats what she said.
- linagee, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Avoiding predators ftw.
  - absentmindedjwc, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2indeed... a win at life I suppose ;)
7travis, on 11/16/2008, -2/+6My palms got sweaty just by looking at it.
- damian7, on 11/16/2008, -4/+2That's what she said?
lllslinklll, on 11/16/2008, -0/+113Seriously? How many times in a 4 week period are we going to see these pictures on the front page?

Especially when its submitted by the same guy:
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Mountain_Goat_tha ...
- dgn3, on 11/16/2008, -14/+8who cares? goats are awesome!
- Colodia, on 11/16/2008, -4/+26I'm just gonna put this out there.
  
  Over 9000.
  
  There.
- illdourmum, on 11/16/2008, -2/+13i guess he knows what diggers like... goats
  
  but still... buried as dupe
  - lllslinklll, on 11/16/2008, -1/+11I'd go so far as to call it spam.
    Posted all the links to the whole set as a comment on both articles that he submitted.
- Yooree, on 11/16/2008, -2/+2Chu don laike pictyure frend?
- lewzer, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1im not even sure how to take that comment. . . i definitely lol'd though.
- Berkana, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Is this the new hot meme on the net? OMGoats?
- sephiroth965, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Agreed. This is the third mountain goat photo I've seen hit the front page this week. What the hell is going on?
- Jolly81, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2Goat Spam, LOL
topbob, on 11/16/2008, -3/+36...the title made me stupider.
- ophello, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Diggers: why do you insist on digging up ***** that, without a freaky title, would never have warranted a digg?
  
  Boycott sub-par images with absurd titles.
- Gravity13, on 11/16/2008, -0/+0NO WAY!
bichimpaid, on 11/16/2008, -9/+2This goat gets more pussy any anyone here.
- sentime, on 11/16/2008, -2/+7and you're the only person outside the middle east that thinks about goat pussy
- sockpuppets, on 11/16/2008, -1/+5Your mom smells like a wallwalker.
optheta, on 11/16/2008, -7/+1Arent we cool posting on a Saturday Night Wewt GO US!!!!!!!!!!!
hebejebelus, on 11/16/2008, -1/+2Clearly, yes way.
digmystuff, on 11/16/2008, -1/+42goats are all the rave on digg these days
- ravedigger, on 11/16/2008, -6/+1Someone said my name?
- siandt, on 11/16/2008, -0/+9Goats are the new bacon.
  - Laminated, on 11/16/2008, -0/+0What about goat bacon?
- awesometastic1, on 11/16/2008, -0/+5first it was bacon, then ron paul, then obama, now goats... If somehow someone ever snapped a pic of Ron Paul and Obama sitting down to a nice breakfast of bacon all in some mountainous region with goats climbing around in the background i think digg might explode
- coondog35, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1LOLGOATZ?
  - Berkana, on 11/16/2008, -0/+3OMGoats!
azureskies88, on 11/16/2008, -1/+48I will never understand Digg's fascination with mountain goats...
- optheta, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9Clearly you are not human.
  - 80hd, on 11/16/2008, -1/+2I am a meat Popsicle
- AgentMull, on 11/16/2008, -1/+2But he is dancer.
  
  God I hate that song.
- Berkana, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Perhaps the fascination is because they are literally horny animals?
tweetsa, on 11/16/2008, -7/+0a lot of these goats (including this one) actually ended up falling to their deaths
Sticky_icky, on 11/16/2008, -7/+37if i see another ***** goat on the front page I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin *****, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin, billygoat boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma git Medieval on your ass.
- Trav3133, on 11/16/2008, -0/+3you win.
- phogster, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1ooh, can they come work on my home when they're done?
- vern59, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1MMMM THAT IS A TASTY BURGER!!!!
KingWilson, on 11/16/2008, -6/+63rd mountain goat related fp in a week....still better than having a constant stream of huffpo and raw story drivel
gstep, on 11/16/2008, -2/+8what you don't know is that this is actually a picture of the goat sliding down the mountain and holding on for dear life
nerdherder, on 11/16/2008, -7/+2Spider-goat, spider-goat, does whatever a spider-goat does.
NCX001, on 11/16/2008, -0/+20seriously this is like the third goat I've seen on the front page in the last week. What gives?
- rjhomuth, on 11/16/2008, -2/+10I for one welcome our new goat overlords.
- Gravity13, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1You can thank digg's lovely recommendation engine for that. Paving the way for a rift of the same people posting the same stuff getting to the front page! (in other words, digg should rework the recommendation engine to exclude 'you dugg this article this person posted, why not try this other one they posted' because the main stuff most people digg is on the front page, making the recommendation engine recommend articles from the same group of people, starting a cycle that puts people like vroom101 on the front page nearly everyday, with the same stuff- mountain goats and fighter jets).
AmericanGunner, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3NO WAI
NeoNcP, on 11/16/2008, -0/+10nature you crazy
Signa91, on 11/16/2008, -8/+1these comments SUCK!
PHiZ187, on 11/16/2008, -1/+41Belongs in the mountain goat section.
SpookyBoots, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2A new goat! Not as cool as the old goat.
oneredeye, on 11/16/2008, -0/+5By definition, that is NOT a sheer mountain face.
Hackenslacker, on 11/16/2008, -1/+11Enough of the freakin' goats already.
bustachops, on 11/16/2008, -0/+3digg : mountain goats :: mtv : t-pain
80hd, on 11/16/2008, -0/+11alright this is like the 8th goat glamor pic to front page this week. Seriously - how many people here need to see more goats to be happy with the internet?
Evi1d33d, on 11/16/2008, -1/+4I wonder how many dead ones are laying on the bottom of the mountain.
- vroom101, on 11/16/2008, -1/+1http://www.pbase.com/cathryngallacher/image/932900 ... (www.pbase.com/cathryngallacher/image/93290040)
  
  http://www.arthon.com/projects/summerland/blasting ... (www.arthon.com/projects/summerland/blasting_rock_HoudiniOct29.html)
  - vroom101, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Better URL for the first link -- includes more photos and the story: http://www.pbase.com/cathryngallacher/goatrescue
- 80hd, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Mountain goats are elastic and thus are quite bouncy.
c010rb1indusa, on 11/16/2008, -0/+7Goats have been competing with Obama for most digg articles lately jesus
kangy3213, on 11/16/2008, -0/+5say hi to your mother for me
- 80hd, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1She says 'thanks, hi'
borez, on 11/16/2008, -1/+1WAY
Shiftyeyedgoat, on 11/16/2008, -0/+6Goats are the strangest Goddamned creatures on this earth... Little mini-horse/donkeys that can scale sheer vertical cliffs and eat most any substance.

And they have utters.

WHO DESIGNED YOU!?!?
- swine, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2Don't forget that they can eat anything! Children, oak chairs,cars, nuclear waste, politicians...oh and by the way they have udders, not utters.
  - 4rp4n3t, on 11/16/2008, -0/+3If you're going for grammar Nazi, I have to go for reading comprehension Nazi: "and eat most any substance" is the end of the OP's first paragraph...
  - Twoje, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Wouldn't swine be a spelling Nazi, not a grammar Nazi?
- coondog35, on 11/16/2008, -0/+7The military should look into this goat technology....
thunderfish, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1So whats up there that is worth climbing up for? Show me a pic of that, seems to be quite the attraction.
- 4rp4n3t, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1There's a burger stall on top of the mountain.
evildeadguy, on 11/16/2008, -0/+9Why is there so many images of mountian goats hitting the front page as of late?
Am I missing something?
- higi, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1some people can't forget goatse
TheStrongForce, on 11/16/2008, -0/+4These goat diggs need to goatohell.
- coondog35, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Yeah, they can just get the flock out.
VyPR, on 11/16/2008, -1/+1I didn't get what all the fuss was about, but then again I had my head tilted slightly to the right when I clicked on the link....
jholden42, on 11/16/2008, -0/+3What the hell is with all the goat pictures recently?
carterx, on 11/16/2008, -1/+1Hover hoofs
muller, on 11/16/2008, -1/+2NO WAY
Teloe, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3People like goats.
kingofthezyx, on 11/16/2008, -2/+2I don't know how this goat thing got started, but I love it.
- 4rp4n3t, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1It might have some validity if it wasn't the same ***** guy posting the same ***** pictures all the time. What a *****.
Trav3133, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2that is what they do. Why not show a picture of a boat in water or a car on the road or some trees in a field of grass.
Skiermws, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2Mountain Goats are the new anteaters?
thecheatah, on 11/16/2008, -1/+2wtf would magnetic-hoofs do on rocks?
modgirl17, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1I have a feeling the submitter is Aberforth Dumbledore...
Disease, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2I've seen enough mountain climbing goat pictures.

I wanna see a video of these goats doing their thing.
- 4rp4n3t, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2I for one would love to see a picture of a mountain climbing a goat.
  - higi, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1goatsex? OMG NOOOOOO!!!!11
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