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Mountain Goats Are Being Airlifted Out of a National Park Because They Crave Human Pee

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Popular MechanicsSeptember 28, 2018
 
 
 
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From Popular Mechanics

Olympic National Park, located in Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, is faced with a daunting challenge: removing a ballooning mountain goat population that's developed a strong appetite for human pee.

Mountain goats aren't a native species in the park. Since their introduction in the 1920s, their numbers have blossomed into a staggering 700 ungulates. Now, with humans flooding the area and routinely relieving themselves on various hiking trails, the goats have developed an insatiable thirst for urine, which serves as a strong source of salt and minerals.

Acting in concert with the National Park Services (NPS) and the USDA Forest Service, park authorities have begun tagging, blindfolding and airlifting the goats to the nearby forests in the North Cascades via helicopter. Fitted with GPS collars, the goats are ferried in pairs to nine sites in the Mt.Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, per a Motherboard report. The sites should provide a more hospitable environment for the surging goat tribe where they can roam free of human interlopers.

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dicey eye

Wonder if a potential goat farmer on this forum will need to give his future herd golden showers every now and then to keep them happy?

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John_Galt
4 hours ago, dicey eye said:

airlifting the goats to the nearby forests in the North Cascades via helicopter.


People talk about corruption here? What a waste of taxpayers money!
 

 

4 hours ago, dicey eye said:

insatiable thirst for urine, which serves as a strong source of salt and minerals.


Wouldn't a mineral or salt lick stop this? 

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angbumabasa
7 hours ago, dicey eye said:

Wonder if a potential goat farmer on this forum will need to give his future herd golden showers every now and then to keep them happy?

Who would that be??  

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Parrothead
10 hours ago, dicey eye said:

Wonder if a potential goat farmer on this forum will need to give his future herd golden showers every now and then to keep them happy?

 

What sort of relationship I have with my livestock - is no one's business, thank you very much!

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dicey eye
31 minutes ago, Parrothead said:

What sort of relationship I have with my livestock - is no one's business, thank you very much!

So sorry, didn't intend to get your goat.

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andy
2 hours ago, Parrothead said:

What sort of relationship I have with my livestock - is no one's business, thank you very much!

 

Take a look at dicey's other post "cow abusers nabbed" It maybe legal.

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Parrothead
1 hour ago, andy said:

 

Take a look at dicey's other post "cow abusers nabbed" It maybe legal.

 

As long as they don't talk...

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