The blog has been sort of a dead zone (typical for holidays) since Thanksgiving. So while some readers are away stuffing their faces with the last of the pumpkin pie leftovers, I thought the rest of us could play Name That Animal. I saw this animal on TV for the first time today.
No researching, just have a guess. I’ll post the answer in the comments later today.
YesBiscuit! 
My son said its a camel. We’re going with a goat if some sort.
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Mountain goat.
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H’mm. You have me stumped. It looks like some sort of wild sheep, but that’s a guess.
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Eucritta is stumped. Is it the apocalypse?
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Maybe the apocaloopsie.
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I thought at first that was another guess. I *almost* Googled it to see what kind of animal it was.
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Hi YB! Long time no chat.
Chamois?
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Selma!
!!!
So glad to hear from you. Keeping yourself out of trouble, I presume?
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Mountain goat or sheep
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ANSWER TIME:
This is a Himalayan Tahr. It is a relative of the wild goat. I saw it today on a NatGeo doc which had film of a snow leopard hunting a baby tahr. To my surprise, the narrator also mentioned that a golden eagle could also pick off a baby tahr.
Baby pix:
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2010/02/whats-a-tahr.html
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There is a petition in http://www.change.org to signa petition to stop memphis animal cruelty. There are about 20,000 we are reaching 25,000.
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Mountain goat as I know since elementary.
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