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
- latsss ( @latsss@discuss.tchncs.de ) 7•4 months ago
We need a bot that converts imperial units from the post into SI ones. Btw. 160ft is 50 meters
Updated the title
- latsss ( @latsss@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•4 months ago
Thank you!
- Dippy ( @Dippy@beehaw.org ) 7•4 months ago
I understand that nature finds a way, but I’m left wondering why
- AwesomeLowlander ( @awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•4 months ago
It’s got what the
plantsgoats crave. It’s got electrolytes.
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 5•4 months ago
Alpine ibex, not goat.
- nezrock ( @nezrock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•4 months ago
All ibex are goats.
You goat expert discuss among yourselves, once you reach a consensus, let me know how to edit the title!
- rbn ( @rbn@sopuli.xyz ) 3•4 months ago
Today is wednesday, so that thingy on the wall is obviously a frog! 🐸
- AwesomeLowlander ( @awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•4 months ago
Sauce?
I don’t have it unfortunately
- AwesomeLowlander ( @awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•4 months ago
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/4873110?q=butter_sugoi Not an ongoing comic, sadly, just a one-off
Edited the title with “ibex”
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 2•4 months ago
👍
- huquad ( @huquad@lemmy.ml ) English4•4 months ago
This only looks impressive because they forgot to rotate their phone.
- remotelove ( @remotelove@lemmy.ca ) 8•4 months ago
I dunno. This looks more impressive after I rotated my phone…
- Empricorn ( @Empricorn@feddit.nl ) English3•4 months ago
“Weeeee!”
- xia ( @xia@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•4 months ago
Perfectly ordinary Austrailian goats.
- Melatonin ( @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•4 months ago
Why no fear? Do they wander up to wolves as well? Roll around in asbestos? Cheat on their taxes?
- Track_Shovel ( @Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ) English2•4 months ago
Engineer of record shits pants loudly in background
- lars ( @lars@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•4 months ago
This is what it feels like parallel parking in Seattle