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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 months ago
[-] Arigion@feddit.de 19 points 2 months ago

But does it have electrolytes?

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

It's clearly got what ibex crave

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Lichen, the dams face is covered in it and they're technically helping keep the dam safe in doing so because lichen can hide leaks.

[-] sandalbucket@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

You are one of today’s lucky 10,000:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-crave-that-mineral

But that is a sick fact about the lichen, I did not know that.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I'm aware of the movie i just like to be informative.

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

THEY'RE ROCKS!

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

"To a goat, all dams are mountains."

- Shit Proverb

[-] lars 2 points 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
[-] latsss@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago
[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago
[-] xia 2 points 2 months ago

Perfectly ordinary Austrailian goats.

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

Slab wall champion right there

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

Janja the GOAT

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

Engineer of record shits pants loudly in background

[-] lars 1 points 2 months ago

This is what it feels like parallel parking in Seattle

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

You could change Apline to Alpine, maybe.

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

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

[-] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months 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 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 months ago

Woah, that's wild!

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

Edited the title with "ibex"

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 2 months ago
[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

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

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