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	goat goat ruminant mammal with hollow horns and coarse hair belonging to the genus Capra of the cattle family and closely related to the sheep. True wild goats, all of Old World origin, include the Persian bezoar goat, or pasan, possibly the ancestor of the domestic varieties; the several species of... Read more
	ibex ibex , wild goat , genus Capra, found in rugged country on mountain ranges from central Asia to the Himalayas, S Europe, and NE Africa. Ibexes are surefooted and agile; they usually travel in small herds of about a dozen animals, feeding on a wide variety of vegetation. Most of the isolated... Read more
	Rocky Mountain goat Rocky Mountain goat hoofed ruminant mammal, Oreamnos americanus, found in the high mountains of S Alaska, W Canada, and the extreme NW United States. Although it is not a true goat it belongs to the same family ( cattle family) and is goatlike in appearance, with a bearded chin, long face, and... Read more
	markhor markhor , wild goat, Capra falconeri, found in the rugged mountains of central Asia, from S Russia to the W Himalayas. Largest of the goats, the male may stand over 40 in. (100 cm) at the shoulder and weigh over 200 lb (90 kg). The coat is short and reddish brown in summer; in winter it is long,... Read more
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	John Bernard Flannagan John Bernard Flannagan , 1895-1942, American sculptor, b. Fargo, N.Dak., studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. His early life was a bitter struggle against poverty. Too poor to buy quarried stone, he picked up field stones for carving. His sculptures, often of animals, range from profound to... Read more
	goatsucker goatsucker common name for nocturnal or crepuscular birds of the order Caprimulgiformes, which includes the frogmouth, the oilbird, potoos, and nightjars. Goatsuckers are medium in size and are found in the temperate and tropical zones of both hemispheres. The name goatsucker is based on an... Read more
	Massif Central Massif Central [Fr.,=central highlands], great mountainous plateau, c.33,000 sq mi (85,470 sq km), S central France, covering almost a sixth of the surface of the country. The chief water divide of France, it borders on the Paris basin in the north, the Rhône valley and basin in the east and... Read more
	Svalbard Svalbard , archipelago (23,958 sq mi/62,051 sq km), island group (2005 est. pop. 2,700), possession of Norway, located in the Arctic Ocean, c.400 mi (640 km) N of the Norwegian mainland and between lat. 74°N and 81°N. The main islands of the group are Spitsbergen (formerly... Read more
	Tsimshian Tsimshian , Native North Americans speaking a language probably falling within the Penutian linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). They lived around the Skeena and Nass rivers, south along the coast of British Columbia, and north into Alaska. Tsimshian culture, like that of the... Read more

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	SUSTAINED HUNTING; FORMER TEACHER FILLS A NEED -- AND HIS FREEZER.(Sports) Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) ...Throughout his life, Stewart has...consistency in my hunting of pronghorns. I really like hunting them," he said...fishing, non-hunting family. "Most...where I shot that mountain goat," he said...It was on the edge of the rocks...
	Things do go bump in the night in the north woods Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press ...was like to be hunting in such a wild...different the hunting would be came...the skills of a mountain goat. As we approached...He had been hunting on the ground on the edge of a secluded...fear in all my life." As we all...
	Early Man and the Blitzkrieg Theory Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday ...In the Badlands, the edge of Lakota Sioux Indian...in this country all my life. SANDY TOLAN: We slope...all their knowledge and hunting skill, the Clovis may...sloths, Harrison' s mountain goat, other animals whose...at the time that this hunting was occurring, these...
	Road Reads Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...95) TARGET AUDIENCE: Readers curious about life and death "on the edge of nowhere."The title is incomplete -- they...plane in the thick fog, fall over a cliff while mountain goat hunting. But it's comforting that if you do so fatally...
	S. D. keeps Old West alive Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...and hike short trails to the edge of high bluffs for panoramic...buffaloes used in the famous hunting scene. Next up were the Badlands...Kate, my 10-year daughter/mountain goat, scurried up the trail in...art and buffalo burgers to life-sized carvings of Butch Cassidy...
	The County Lines Newspaper article from: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) ...Elementary is on the cutting edge, thanks to the Airway Heights...for moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat permits. Also, anyone interested...taking hunter education and bow hunting courses should register from...lived in Pine Creek most of her life, was named "Grandma of the...