Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the most recent encounter, a nanny defended its kid from an off-leash dog. Officials are warning hikers at a popular camping ...

Ever since the day when, as a kid, I saw the profile of a Rocky Mountain goat on a Great Northern box car, I’d wanted to hunt that monarch of the rocks. Now the time had come; but, like misty dream ...

MOUNT TIMPANOGOS, Utah — Officials are warning pet owners to be responsible after three dogs have been killed in the past three weeks by mountain goats on Mount Timpanogos. The latest incident ...

Mountain goats have killed three dogs in as many weeks on a Utah mountain popular with hikers and campers. Timpanogos Emergency Response Team Typically mellow mountain goats have mercilessly killed ...

This story, “Mountain Goat with a Handgun,” appeared in the June 1957 issue of Outdoor Life. I WAS WORKING my way around the last perpendicular cliff below camp when the wind and rain hit me, covering ...

The tiny Sauk-Suiattle Tribe is fighting to save its brother, the mountain goat. The agile, cliff-dwelling critter with pure-white wool has been in steady decline for decades. Now its numbers are ...

A multi-institutional team of animal behaviorists, snow impact specialists and biologists from Alaska, Montana, Switzerland and Canada has found that large numbers of wild mountain goats die every ...

WEST GLACIER – As mountain goat research prepares to continue this summer in Glacier National Park, preliminary data suggests goats that are habituated to humans display different herding behavior, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — On a recent hike to the top of Mount Timpanogos, our group of four encountered mountain goats and their young several times along the trail. We were careful not to get too close or ...

DARRINGTON -- Most of the meadows and rocky outcrops mountain goats inhabit in Washington state are so remote that only hardy backcountry hikers ever see them. Quick-footed and as elusive as ghosts, ...

Three alpine ibex stand confidently on a steep rocky slope. These mountain goats are famous for their curved horns and ...