They're an astonishing sight, especially when scaling sheer cliff faces, so it's no wonder that we are drawn towards observing mountain goats. The regions they inhabit are the kind of high-altitude ...

Losing summer snow patches may hit mountain goats hard, according to a study that suggests that goats seek out snow to avoid biting insects. Many cold-adapted species take advantage of patches of snow ...

There is little trial and error when it comes to navigating avalanches. Especially if you’re a mountain goat, without access to an Intro to Backcountry course or ...

For three summers, wildlife managers wrestled mountain goats in Washington state’s Olympic National Park, blindfolded them and then flew them into the far reaches of the state’s Cascade Range — an ...

A multi-institutional team of animal behaviorists, snow impact specialists and biologists from Alaska, Montana, Switzerland and Canada has found that large numbers of wild mountain goats die every ...