Mammals on Monday: Mountain Goat Kid
Feb 8th, 2010 by Kevin, FCD
Mountain Goat kid – Glacier National Park (click image to view larger)
Though you can’t imagine it being good for their health, on my trip to Glacier National Park during the summer of 2006, I encountered a mother Mountain Goat and her kid lapping up coolant from people’s automobiles in the parking lot. But apparently it happens all the time from what I hear. It did give me the opportunity to get this nice closeup of the kid(and one of the mother, too), and a bit of a chuckle because the mother goat must have thought the animal I had with me (good old Roxy) was some kind of bad predator. That goat was certainly giving Roxy the evil eye, and I decided the best thing to do was leave, just in case that goat decided to give my girl a head butt.
Very cute! I think it tastes sweet to them…I believe the artificial sweetener Aspartame has something to do with coolant, as well.