| Show ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD GOATS only two spec mens of the kace are living in captivity tie wild goat or snow goat of the crockr mountains was so little know a few years ago that even the great museums of the world did not posses so that the capture of a ahe kid is a matter of great interest to natu allots the stony indians who alv in the canadian rocky rabun bains near janaskas Kan askas were incited by mart douglas the superintendent of the banff national park to search for a kid among the glaciers and snow peaks by the offer of 50 for one these indefatigable hunters were fortunate enough to find a small herd in which was a nanny without frightening her in any way they watched the herd with the dogged for which the indian 1 renowned until one day she gave birth to a kid they left the little creature with her for twenty four hours and then succeeded in surrounding it although even at this early age the youngster showed very considerable activity it is now in the canadian national park at banff and Is being suckled by an angora goat one was captured last summer and is now in the philadel phia zoological gardens and these two examples of this rare species are all that are known to be alive in cap unless taken very young they usually die although the canadian hold an abundance of big game the hunter prizes good heads of the mountain sheep and of the mountain goat more than any othe of the trophies of his aim as each of those animals live among the wildest precipices of the great range and it tal es a steady head good lungs and a keen eye to hu i either successfully |
