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a mongoose can be seen near the centre 
basket held by a string. The cobras are 
very large and beautifully marked, they 
were very lively too, and constantly striking 
at the man, but of course their fangs 
had been drawn. 
Qs 
Tuts photograph of a Rocky Mountain Goat 
was sent to us by Mr. Robert 
D. Carson for insertion in “The 
Living Animals of the World,” 
‘but as it arrived too late for that purpose we 
give it here. It 
is belheved that 
only two of these 
animals have 
ever been ex- 
hibited in Zoo- 
logical Gardens, 
one is in Re- 
gent’s Park and 
the other at 
Philadelphia. 
The animal is 
a goat only in 
name, its aftin- 
ities being with 
the Antelopes. 
It is larger than 
a sheep, old 
males weighing 
fully300 pounds, 
and has a long, 
solemn face, a 
shagey white 
coat, and slen- 
der polished 
black horns 
which suggest 
those of the 
Chamois. Its 
home is among 
the crags, snow- 
banks and gla- 
ciers of the lofty 
mountains of 
the north-west, 
far above the 
A Goat that 
is not a Goat. 
From @ Photograph. 
A YOUNG MALE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. 
Animal Life 
regions in which most animals live. In such 
surroundings its range extends from the 
Rocky Mountains in Idaho and the Cascades 
in Washington northward through British 
Columbia and the coast ranges of Alaska to 
Kenai Peninsula. But the rugged peaks it 
inhabits, bleak and barren as they are in 
stormy weather, are not wholly inhospitable, 
for in summer the little hollows among the 
rocks are carpeted with flowering ;heathers 
and other beautiful alpine plants, and are 
sought as nesting-places by the ptarmigan, 
titlark and other 
birds. The Mountain 
Goat is rather 
a stupid beast, 
and where not 
often disturbed 
1s easily 
approached, 
especially from 
above. His 
enemies, aside 
from man, are 
few. In summer, 
in the southern 
part of hisrange, 
he is said to be 
hunted by both 
the grizzly bear 
and the moun- 
tain lion, and 
in the northern 
part by the big 
brown bears of 
Alaska; but it 
is not hkely that 
such heavy and 
clumsy animals 
as bears can 
catch such nat- 
ural-born rock 
climbers as 
goats, unless 
suddenly — sur- 
prised or cor- 
nered in some 
place from 
which thereisno 
possible escape. 
