Curious Mountain Goats in Colorado Stomp All Over Hiker’s Car Like It’s Their Job

Imagine going out on a warm summer day for a peaceful hike and coming back to your car and finding hoof marks all over the hood and roof of it. That's what happened to TikToker Superglamp, and lucky for her someone else was nearby to record what happened to her car because it would've remained a mystery otherwise! Superglamp posted the video on Sunday, July 14th, and you've got to see it to believe it.

Superglamp is an avid hiker, and went out to hike the Tour de Abyss, a highly challenging 6-mile loop in the mountains near Idaho Springs, Colorado. While she was gone, a couple of curious mountain goats came to check out her ride, and stomped all over her car like it was their job!

Talk about a feisty goat! The one goat was literally jumping up and down on the hood and gear box like it was the star of a commercial to prove how strong the Subaru and Yakima Racks really are! Superglamp even said in her caption that both 'held up against field testing. Best products on the market!" She's not wrong! Commenters had a lot to say about the funny video. One of my favorites came from @Chubbs who said, "If they left any dents, I’d leave them because who else would have mountain goat dents on their car?" and Superglamp responded, "Shockingly there weren’t any dents, but I still have the prints on the car because I don’t want to wash them off."

Professional photographer Michael Ryno was the man who caught the mountain goats in the act. He shared the video on Instagram and that's how Superglamp found the footage. Yakima Racks commented on Ryno's video and said, "Believe it or not we actually test our products for situations like this." and another commenter responded, "I was going to say I can tell if that’s a Yakima or Thule, but whoever it is has some great promo footage!"

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Cool Facts About Mountain Goats

I've never seen a mountain goat in real life, but after seeing Superglamp's video, I wanted to know more about them since they seem to like to have fun! The first thing I found fascinating about them is that mountain goats aren't related to goats at all. Instead, they are related to antelopes, gazelles, and cattle. I had no idea! And Alaska Wildlife shared this interesting fact, "Mountain goats are one of the least-studied large mammal species in North America. They only started to be written about in scientific literature in 1816 and are often mistaken for Dall sheep."

Mountain goat mamas can have babies every year once they reach sexual maturity. They have one or two babies, called kids, at a time. Male babies are called “billies” while females are “nannies”. And here's a cool fact about how to figure out how old a mountain goat is; you count the rings on their horns just like you can count tree rings! A 4-year-old has 4 rings, and on and on.

Mountain goats are shy animals who like to keep to themselves. They don't mind humans as long as they keep their distance. They don't normally attack unless they feel threatened, so if you ever encounter one it's probably best not to try to count the rings on their horns or you could end up with one of their sharp horn's somewhere you don't want it to be.

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