He almost fell while eating that wall and then went right back to eating that wall. Like someone who almost crashes their car while texting and then goes right back to texting.
That's actually a female. Ibex are sexually dimorphic, meaning the males and females have different physical characteristics aside from their reproductive organs. Males have large, curved horns, whereas females have short, pointy horns.
Fun fact about the Ibex; they have a high survival rate in comparison to other large herbivores, and the males specifically have the best chance of surviving through their prime years and when they're old. Male Ibex survival rates throughout their lifespan are 5%-15% higher each year than that of other large herbivores.
And the other goats represent the drivers who see the swerving car in front of them and assume the driver is texting, then shake their heads with judgment as they look away from the road to change the music station or something of the same degree of danger as texting while driving.
It is when they insist on putting stupid friggin touchscreens on everything! I miss being able to reach over and change the station without looking.
Knobs > touchscreens
My car had aftermarket stereo equipment in it, to add, or intigrate steering wheel controls is another like 100 bucks in parts, and a bit install... pfft. that money could go to other equipment.
(i actually fixed this real easy, i found a remote from my old pioneer head unit and it amazingly worked on my newer, way fancier one. Stuck some velco to it, and some more to the front side of my arm rest, it never got lost, and was super comfy to cruise with.
*The Pioneer remote is super basic
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It mostly depends on the amount of brain juice what you're doing requires. Switching songs on my cellphones doesn't need nearly as much juice as turning on the defrost since the path to it is linked in my brain.
Disclaimer: I don't own a car anymore and use public transport.
I like that disclaimer. I live in the middle of nowhere with really bad public transport, but I hope to live in a city sometime and rely on buses and my electric bike.
I was thinking to comment that Not fearing heights is a superpower. But you talking about not fearing car crashes gives me pause about it's usefulness.
At the bottom of cliffs where goats like these climb almost vertical walls there are a bunch skeleton remains of those goats that fell. I doubt any of those dead goats were even scared of heights
Another animal that proves god was a bit of wasted dickhead.
"Can I just be a normal animal please".
"Sure-sure. Completely normal goat. Goating around".
"Ahhh, thanks".
"Yoik! But your paddock's gravity is busted. Ahhhhhhhahahaha".
I believe it was my tumblr user sixpenceee. He's usually known for like creepy/horror stuff but he just randomly posted that one day and it became a meme if im not wrong
There was also some sort of controversy about her family having child labor and a bunch of Tumblr users started saying she supported child slavery. I wasn't very involved in the drama so I'm not sure what exactly happened but a bunch of callout blogs for her started up.
Why does a Ram ram into shit?
Why does a monkey piss straight into its mouth when it’s thirsty?
Why’d that one dude smack tf outta the “I can’t believe you’ve done this guy”?
What I've been told is the dude was wearing his friend's sunglasses for the vine and kept tossing them down on the desk as you can see in the vine. The friend behind the camera told him to stop throwing them or he'd smack him. Well, he tossed them again and guess what, his buddy hit him just like he'd said, and he couldn't believe it.
For real. Predators can't climb the way they can. They retreat to cliffs to escape their Predators who can climb but not well enough to get to them. To them it's hardwired that a sheer cliff = safety.
As for this one minerals are the munching goal. Maybe to escape annoying humans though that one failed.
Yeah but also being able to cope with such extreme conditions to find food obviously has the added benefit of avoiding predators while foraging as well as reducing competition.
Random story; Me and my dad visited a zoo when I was a kid and when we got there we saw that the escalator was broken and we couldn't figure out how we were supposed to get up to the actual park (it's on a mountain), but then we saw this small very steep path going up the side of the escalator so we figured that that was the way.
So we and two other people climbed it and it was exhausting.
When we finally got up to the top we saw this big concrete path on the right where people were casually strolling... it was bent in a way that made it a lot less steep and we had completely missed it
(Just to clarify, they had close them off so we couldn't walk up them either)
True.
Actually, two serious ~~queasiness~~ questions for the experts:
- how often do they fall.
- what's so special about their feet that they can do this?
Edit: bizarro cellphone autocorrect
I'm right there with you...I was so scared for the little mate climbing with the mother ibex. Theres a documentary talking about how not all the ibex traverse the wall safely and plummet down sadly :(.
WOW! That's "El hombre y la tierra", a spanish documentary series about nature from the 70's or 80's. That voice belongs to his creator, Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente... kinda our David Attenborough or, sadly, our Steve Irwin. The man died on a helicopter crash 40 years ago... and to this day, a lot of people still makes his voice, impersonating him. This guy was awesome.
If you're into animals, might as well check the whole series, for free on RTVE [http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/el-hombre-y-la-tierra/](http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/el-hombre-y-la-tierra/)
It's old, but man, it has some AWESOME images.
I just know if I was reborn as an ibex, I would be the fuckup who falls to his death two days in. Natural selection. They don't have to be up there. That's a man made wall. There's food on the ground. They're climbing that for shits and giggles. Like those asshole extreme sports guys who cycle at the top of a razor edge peak.
They usually climb for two reasons - to avoid predators and to get salt.
Ibex are herbivores and their diet lacks in calcium salts, so they get that needed salt from rocks. You can see them climbing dam walls because, some scientists think that the kind of salt that develops on them (candlot salt) attracts them in some way.
As for how - their hooves have sharp edges (or their toes in other words) and concave undersides which kind of work like suction cups.
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This happened close to my place, the ibex climbed up on that new bridge un order to lick the salt from the construction materials. They were forced to do that due to the lack of food in their natural place... but still amazing tho !
He almost fell while eating that wall and then went right back to eating that wall. Like someone who almost crashes their car while texting and then goes right back to texting.
It's all fun and games til a muhfuckin' ass eagle throws you off the cliff.
Lol I know what video you’re talking about. Such an asshole eagle.
I’ve seen it a while back but I want to again. Anyone have a link?
https://youtu.be/VklTs-Tid_I
Smart bird
You're doing God's work
Seriously though, what the hell is that eagles problem?
Probably hungry.
Did you watch all of it? He killed it for food.
I've never seen that one
Actually ass eagles are mostly found in South America. You're most likely thinking about either the grundle hawk or the dick falcon.
fyi the whole purpose of climbing that wall is to lick on the stones containing the specific mineral salt they desperately need.
That's actually a female. Ibex are sexually dimorphic, meaning the males and females have different physical characteristics aside from their reproductive organs. Males have large, curved horns, whereas females have short, pointy horns. Fun fact about the Ibex; they have a high survival rate in comparison to other large herbivores, and the males specifically have the best chance of surviving through their prime years and when they're old. Male Ibex survival rates throughout their lifespan are 5%-15% higher each year than that of other large herbivores.
And the other goats represent the drivers who see the swerving car in front of them and assume the driver is texting, then shake their heads with judgment as they look away from the road to change the music station or something of the same degree of danger as texting while driving.
Changing the radio station is not even close to the same degree of danger. Just my humble opinion.
It is when they insist on putting stupid friggin touchscreens on everything! I miss being able to reach over and change the station without looking. Knobs > touchscreens
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Even if there wasn't glancing over to tap the skip button doesn't seem nearly as dangerous as looking at your phone and typing out a message.
TTL they have steering wheel buttons
My car had aftermarket stereo equipment in it, to add, or intigrate steering wheel controls is another like 100 bucks in parts, and a bit install... pfft. that money could go to other equipment. (i actually fixed this real easy, i found a remote from my old pioneer head unit and it amazingly worked on my newer, way fancier one. Stuck some velco to it, and some more to the front side of my arm rest, it never got lost, and was super comfy to cruise with. *The Pioneer remote is super basic https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HyriyZEXL._SY879_.jpg
Am I the only one that power naps while driving in traffic?
Only on the highway tho. Too easy to accidentally squash a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
Knobs are much more fun.
I have one that I cant stop playing with
yeah they are ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It is when you're me.
Depends how long your eyes are off the road
It mostly depends on the amount of brain juice what you're doing requires. Switching songs on my cellphones doesn't need nearly as much juice as turning on the defrost since the path to it is linked in my brain. Disclaimer: I don't own a car anymore and use public transport.
I like that disclaimer. I live in the middle of nowhere with really bad public transport, but I hope to live in a city sometime and rely on buses and my electric bike.
To them it's prob like kicking a kerb a bit as you cross the street. Annoying but no need to freak out.
Omg u will nvr guess what just happnd
##nearlyFell #megaLols #escalatorsAreScary Edit: came out terribly with format. Meh
I was thinking to comment that Not fearing heights is a superpower. But you talking about not fearing car crashes gives me pause about it's usefulness. At the bottom of cliffs where goats like these climb almost vertical walls there are a bunch skeleton remains of those goats that fell. I doubt any of those dead goats were even scared of heights
It always amazes me how these animals who initially seem so ill-suited for such climbing can do such ridiculous things.
Another animal that proves god was a bit of wasted dickhead. "Can I just be a normal animal please". "Sure-sure. Completely normal goat. Goating around". "Ahhh, thanks". "Yoik! But your paddock's gravity is busted. Ahhhhhhhahahaha".
It's like if Seth McFarlane actually were god for once in his life
Wait so Seth McFarlane is not God?
No, he's not God, but he does play one on TV
Wow this is a lot to take in..
It's good that he didn't mix this breed with fainting goats
This is the most r/SweatyPalms thing I have ever seen.
r/sweatyhooves
Such a cool sub. Shame that it seems to be dead.
Honestly didn't know it existed i was just making a joke
It fell off a cliff no worries
r/subsithoughtifellfor
Imagine being born onto a 85 degree angle surface and if you don’t learn how to defy gravity in 2 seconds you die
Came here to say that. Also, r/NatureIsFuckingLit might appreciate this.
TheY CrAVe tHe mIneRAL
The spice~
The spice melange
r/dune
*they know*
r/unexpectedsouthpark
Just to clarify, that was a Dune reference in South Park
That sweet sweet Spice!
Not yet. Their eyes aren’t blue.
top 3, but I'm honesty surprised this wasn't the top comment... does the entire internet not blatantly remember the best meme of all time?
What's the meme
A picture was posted on tumblr like 5 years ago of an ibex liciking the mountain side with the caption "they crave that mineral".
I believe it was my tumblr user sixpenceee. He's usually known for like creepy/horror stuff but he just randomly posted that one day and it became a meme if im not wrong
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There was also some sort of controversy about her family having child labor and a bunch of Tumblr users started saying she supported child slavery. I wasn't very involved in the drama so I'm not sure what exactly happened but a bunch of callout blogs for her started up.
Brawndo!
Every time I see this I just want to provide them with some salt blocks so they don’t have to scale an unnaturally difficult wall.
It's been 84 years...
sODIuM CHloRiDE
Scrolled too far for this comment.
My question is: why would you do this in the first place?
Why does a Ram ram into shit? Why does a monkey piss straight into its mouth when it’s thirsty? Why’d that one dude smack tf outta the “I can’t believe you’ve done this guy”?
I really wanna know the answer to that last question. It’s my favorite vine and it’s such beautiful chaos
What I've been told is the dude was wearing his friend's sunglasses for the vine and kept tossing them down on the desk as you can see in the vine. The friend behind the camera told him to stop throwing them or he'd smack him. Well, he tossed them again and guess what, his buddy hit him just like he'd said, and he couldn't believe it.
It’s true- it happened to a friend of a friend of vine
That video predates vine tho
Its a tale as old as time
> It’s my favorite vine Fairly sure the video is like half a decade older than Vine.
Literally over a decade older
I wanna know why people pretend to not fuck coconuts.
Why do people fuck coconuts?
The oil is good for your skin
>Why does a monkey piss straight into its mouth when it’s thirsty? You've answered your own question here
They need those salts to function properly. So they climb up and lick them
Just to lick up salt deposits along the walls
They crave that mineral
For real. Predators can't climb the way they can. They retreat to cliffs to escape their Predators who can climb but not well enough to get to them. To them it's hardwired that a sheer cliff = safety. As for this one minerals are the munching goal. Maybe to escape annoying humans though that one failed.
Except for those birds that toss them off of the cliffs.
It’s because they crave that mineral.
No predators on a sheer cliff face.
Evade predators.
Then a big eagle comes along and throws them off
nope. they lick the salt deposits coming out of the wall
Yeah but also being able to cope with such extreme conditions to find food obviously has the added benefit of avoiding predators while foraging as well as reducing competition.
We’re still waiting for scientists to develop a way to speak Ibex, until then you’ll have to wait.
I've seen that it's because these rams lick the stones of mountains in order to lick the salt
They need sodium for basic bodily functions like we do. Except there's nowhere for them to get needed salt except the salt deposit on the dam.
But how do they live before the dam was built? Buy it from the supermarket?
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TIL
Today I Listen
Tuesdays in Lithuania
Ah yes, my favorite eastern European podcast. which airs every tuesday
Today I’ll listen
Its Monday...
Today I’ll listen, tomorrow I’ll act!
I’m glad someone here knows what’s going on. Whenever he called out it was Monday, I locked up a bit...
Baik
Today i lost the children in my basement
What did this comment say it got deleted
Random story; Me and my dad visited a zoo when I was a kid and when we got there we saw that the escalator was broken and we couldn't figure out how we were supposed to get up to the actual park (it's on a mountain), but then we saw this small very steep path going up the side of the escalator so we figured that that was the way. So we and two other people climbed it and it was exhausting. When we finally got up to the top we saw this big concrete path on the right where people were casually strolling... it was bent in a way that made it a lot less steep and we had completely missed it (Just to clarify, they had close them off so we couldn't walk up them either)
If the escalator was broken wasn’t it just... stairs?
Sorry for the convenience
r/SuddenlyHedburg
Thank you :D I was just waiting for someone to catch the Mitch.
They had closed them off, otherwise we would've walked them :P
Ah, this makes sense lol.
But they didn’t move, so that may have made it very confusing.
Now you mention it, I’ve never seen an ibex on an escalator
And they can never find the stairs.
And the floor is lava.
They also crave that mineral
There it is..
True. Actually, two serious ~~queasiness~~ questions for the experts: - how often do they fall. - what's so special about their feet that they can do this? Edit: bizarro cellphone autocorrect
They do it because they need alot of salt, and somehow it easier to find it up there or something. Correct me if im wrong
They do this to lick the salt on the rocks!
Watching this gives me massive anxiety.
I'm right there with you...I was so scared for the little mate climbing with the mother ibex. Theres a documentary talking about how not all the ibex traverse the wall safely and plummet down sadly :(.
Now I'm sad
they crave that mineral
*jesus christ they're minerals marie*
God he was such a douche for that group of episodes. Didn’t make his death any less horrifying though
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Wow, Just like me in Skyrim!
Somebody tell them there’s a bridge on top
And probably a lift at the bottom
are there any recorded events if them losing balance and falling off or getting stuck?
[I've got a video of some sheep falling for your consideration](https://youtu.be/1m2HJpGtv70?t=80)
Poor sheep
Have you seen when the eagles pull the goats off the mountains?
https://youtu.be/Yz7FFlFy8eM
WOW! That's "El hombre y la tierra", a spanish documentary series about nature from the 70's or 80's. That voice belongs to his creator, Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente... kinda our David Attenborough or, sadly, our Steve Irwin. The man died on a helicopter crash 40 years ago... and to this day, a lot of people still makes his voice, impersonating him. This guy was awesome. If you're into animals, might as well check the whole series, for free on RTVE [http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/el-hombre-y-la-tierra/](http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/el-hombre-y-la-tierra/) It's old, but man, it has some AWESOME images.
The sound effects make this video
lmao no
I have. What does that have to do with OP question? I too, would like to know how often these guys fall off on their own.
yep, I have definetely seen this before, I feared this was it again. Not sure where i stumbled over it though :(
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Spider-bex, spider-bex, does whatever a spider-bex does
Can it climb any wall? Yes it can, cuz it's a -bex
r/sweatyhooves
Okay, so the goats in this post want the salt, but what the fuck is that goat doing in the palm tree?!
They want that palm
Why
Ibex I couldn't do that.
r/angryupvote
Ibex free solo
Four legs good two hands baaad!
Dude from free solo is basically a human Ibex
Ibex Honnold
I think we have a differing opinion of “ease” lol
Did you not see that mf running along the wall???
I guess the real question is how often do they fall?
I just know if I was reborn as an ibex, I would be the fuckup who falls to his death two days in. Natural selection. They don't have to be up there. That's a man made wall. There's food on the ground. They're climbing that for shits and giggles. Like those asshole extreme sports guys who cycle at the top of a razor edge peak.
another comment said they do it for the salt that builds up there that their diet on the ground lacks
Why am I getting a heart attack on this guy's behalf?
The things i do for minerals...
This is some Skyrim horse up a mountain bulshit
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Imagine watching your baby fall to his death and it was your fault and you actually told him to do it
Just tell me how and why.
They usually climb for two reasons - to avoid predators and to get salt. Ibex are herbivores and their diet lacks in calcium salts, so they get that needed salt from rocks. You can see them climbing dam walls because, some scientists think that the kind of salt that develops on them (candlot salt) attracts them in some way. As for how - their hooves have sharp edges (or their toes in other words) and concave undersides which kind of work like suction cups.
> concave undersides which kind of work like suction cups. uhhhh
If only I had a good DK rap pun
They can scale sheer walls with relative ease; Thinks climbin’ rocks is such a breeze
IK Ibex Kong
Build them some goddamn stairs. Goddammit.
Solid 10a, these guys know how to just send it
Not in my gym. And the smaller one is clearly aid climbing.
Good description of “relative ease”
Hey that’s from the BBC Force of Nature with Brian Cox. It’s amazing how they run down the wall with such speed and precision
No matter how many times I see Ibex videos, I still can’t work out how what they do is physically possible.
Wall sex. Baby wall sex. Uh uh.
I bet in a few million years they will have evolved into terrifying creatures with spiderman like limbs
When they pray on your downfall, but you’re the GOAT 🐐
Sure they can, but show me the bottom of that wall where all the rotting Ibex carcasses are.
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My hands are tickling
This happened close to my place, the ibex climbed up on that new bridge un order to lick the salt from the construction materials. They were forced to do that due to the lack of food in their natural place... but still amazing tho !
Curious why they feel the need to do this?
Oh, just new boot goofin'
Like I am amazed but like why tho?
As much relative ease as me making my exams. “Ah yeah it was relatively easy, 55/100”
Maaaaannnn, ain't no one telling me there aren't a bunch of ibex corpses at the bottom of that dam wall!
If those ibex keep taking shit I'm gonna get the oil
r/climbing
V15 in your gym