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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/interestingasfuck@lemm.ee

At Cingino Dam - located 7 kilometres (4 mi) southwest of Antrona Schieranco, Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in Piedmont, Italy - you will find some Alpine ibex wild goats climbing its wall. The Cingino Dam is just about vertical. It is 160 feet high and these wild goats climb almost to the top of it. This species of goat lives in the European Alps, it has split hooves with rubber like soles. They are exceptional climbers...but to see them climb this vertical wall is absolutely stunning! Why would they do it? Their diet, which consists mostly of grass, gives them a major salt craving. Coincidentally, the wall of Italy's Cingino Dam is built with salt encrusted stones - with the really good, salty stone blocks near the top of the dam. So in order to get to these mineral rich salts, these goats do what looks to be impossible...they climb a vertical wall

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[-] sandalbucket@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago
[-] Arigion@feddit.de 19 points 2 years ago

But does it have electrolytes?

[-] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

It's clearly got what ibex crave

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

THEY'RE ROCKS!

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 years ago
[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 35 points 2 years ago
[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"To a goat, all dams are mountains."

- Shit Proverb

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

My people are a proud people. Sometimes the state governor would give us a shoutout during speeches and say, in this noble state, we always have the Shits.

[-] latsss@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

We need a bot that converts imperial units from the post into SI ones. Btw. 160ft is 50 meters

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago
[-] latsss@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago
[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

I understand that nature finds a way, but I'm left wondering why

[-] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's got what the ~~plants~~ goats crave. It's got electrolytes.

[-] huquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

This only looks impressive because they forgot to rotate their phone.

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I dunno. This looks more impressive after I rotated my phone...

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago
[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Perfectly ordinary Austrailian goats.

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Slab wall champion right there

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Janja the GOAT

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

Engineer of record shits pants loudly in background

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

This is what it feels like parallel parking in Seattle

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] nezrock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago
[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 21 points 2 years ago

You goat expert discuss among yourselves, once you reach a consensus, let me know how to edit the title!

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

You could change Apline to Alpine, maybe.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago
[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

Today is wednesday, so that thingy on the wall is obviously a frog! 🐸

[-] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

An ibex (pl.: ibex, ibexes or ibices) is any of several species of wild goat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibex

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes. But:

the west caucasian ibex looks like this: wc ibex

East caucasian: ec ibex

The ethiopic ibex: ethiopic ibex

etc.

While this is the alpine ibex: alpine ibex

And i saw an article months ago, this is from an alpine dam.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Woah, that's wild!

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

Edited the title with "ibex"

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Why no fear? Do they wander up to wolves as well? Roll around in asbestos? Cheat on their taxes?

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