mountain goat
moun·tain goat • n. 1. (also Rocky Mountain goat) a goat-antelope (Oreamnos americanus) with shaggy white hair and backward curving horns, living in the Rocky Mountains. 2. any goat that lives on mountains, proverbial for agility.
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