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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Pat B on February 28, 2011, 04:29:47 pm

Title: Dam animals!
Post by: Pat B on February 28, 2011, 04:29:47 pm
I thought this was pretty cool...
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/cid_030201cbd0785a2358f005F66AD3AamentiPC.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/cid_030301cbd0785a2358f005F66AD3AamentiPC.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/cid_030401cbd0785a2358f005F66AD3AamentiPC.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/cid_030501cbd0785a2358f005F66AD3AamentiPC.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/cid_030601cbd0785a2358f005F66AD3AamentiPC.jpg)

These are European Ibex on a dam face in Italy. They are eating lichens and salt from the dam face.
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Post by: John K on February 28, 2011, 04:42:45 pm
Wow ! Pretty cool !
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Post by: ErictheViking on February 28, 2011, 04:48:15 pm
That  is just amazing!  gives you a new respect for the terrain you may have to hunt these things in.
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Post by: Josh on February 28, 2011, 04:48:23 pm
That's pretty dam cool!   8)
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Post by: NTD on February 28, 2011, 04:59:25 pm
Family site guys...watch the language... ;D

Pat,  That is pretty cool, do you know where it is?
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Post by: cowboy on February 28, 2011, 05:33:49 pm
Hahaha - now that's cool!
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Post by: Pat B on February 28, 2011, 06:25:14 pm
Nate, it is on the Diga del Cingino Dam in Italy If that helps.  ;D
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Post by: Matt S. on February 28, 2011, 06:31:58 pm
And here I thought this thread was going to be about beavers when I read the title ;D
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Post by: JackCrafty on February 28, 2011, 07:27:22 pm
What the ?  :o
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Post by: Michael C. on February 28, 2011, 09:01:30 pm
Woah that is incredible that they get up on that thing.
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Post by: medicinewheel on March 01, 2011, 05:30:50 am
Sure is incredible! I've seen stuff like that on film; craziest is when they turn around and walk back to where they came from, or the fawns doing flippy jumps. Mountain goat and chamois fawns act even crazier I believe.
Have seen photos of goats climbing trees to feed on leaves.
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Post by: Pappy on March 01, 2011, 09:37:50 am
Now that is cool,them critters can go anywhere. :)
   Pappy
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Post by: Parnell on March 01, 2011, 11:49:12 am
Amazing!  I can't imagine how they can turn around!
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Post by: HatchA on March 01, 2011, 01:24:18 pm
Quote from: Parnell on March 01, 2011, 11:49:12 am
Amazing!  I can't imagine how they can turn around!

Kinda makes 'em sitting targets, eh?  ;)


Surely I can't be the only one thinking that?!
Title: Re: Dam animals!
Post by: medicinewheel on March 01, 2011, 03:47:21 pm
Quote from: HatchA on March 01, 2011, 01:24:18 pm
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Kinda makes 'em sitting targets, eh?  ;)

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No Hatch, it does not. They'll move faster up and down and square and across than a human being could move straight on a freshly mowed English lawn!  ;D ;D ;D

These here are chamois, not ibex, but that doesn't make a difference, they move through the same habitats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN7ESiUxSuI
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Post by: mullet on March 01, 2011, 05:33:09 pm
Hatch, the down side to shooting one is it will fall all the way to the bottom. And if it didn't,, who's going after it? ;D
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Post by: JustinNC on March 01, 2011, 07:22:37 pm
Quote from: mullet on March 01, 2011, 05:33:09 pm
Hatch, the down side to shooting one is it will fall all the way to the bottom. And if it didn't,, who's going after it? ;D

The same person that would go get it if it went to the bottom.....if it didnt fall and stuck to the dam, it'd be fun dropping basketball sized rocks off the top of the dam like Plinko off the Price is Right.
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Post by: HatchA on March 02, 2011, 12:19:51 pm
Quote from: JustinNC on March 01, 2011, 07:22:37 pm
Quote from: mullet on March 01, 2011, 05:33:09 pm
Hatch, the down side to shooting one is it will fall all the way to the bottom. And if it didn't,, who's going after it? ;D

The same person that would go get it if it went to the bottom.....if it didnt fall and stuck to the dam, it'd be fun dropping basketball sized rocks off the top of the dam like Plinko off the Price is Right.

LMAO!!!!
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Post by: bareshaft12 on March 02, 2011, 10:03:31 pm
 :o that is cool,the first for me.
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Post by: johnston on March 09, 2011, 06:11:32 pm
I once saw a billy goat drive a volkswagen but these critters take the cake.