A Saucy Gentleman

Doesn't he seem to be saying, "Whatcha doing there?"

My daughter was there (she snapped the photo). Well, so was WonderHusband. They were up in northern British Columbia, just south of the Yukon border. They had hiked and hiked one day last summer and amazingly found themselves sitting in amongst a group of mountain goats.

This is a male. It is hard to tell the difference between males and females. The males have horns with a slightly fatter base and their horns are gently curved at the top, while the female horns have a little kink at the end.

Incidentally, do you know the difference between horns and antlers? You can guess that I do! Horns are an extension of the skull bone and don't fall off each year. Antlers are not part of the skull and they fall off each year. There you go, now you know.

Apparently there were three of these guys that hung around for about 1/2 hour but then they got bored (the goats, not the sitting hikers) and wandered off to see if they could find something else interesting in millions of square miles of wilderness.