Mountain Goat Hooves. Mountain goats are powerful. Goats scale dam in italy adapted to their perilous environment alpine ibex have evolved a specialized split hoof whose cleft is wider than on any other split hooved species according to smithsonian magazine.
Mountain goats are powerful. Despite its vernacular name it is not a member of capra the genus that includes all other goats such as the wild goat capra aegagrus from which the domestic goat is derived. The answer again is their hoof.
Mountain goats have cloven hooves with two toes that spread wide to improve balance.
Stocky climbers with muscular legs and broad hooves mountain goats stand about 1 metre 39 inches at the shoulder. Ruminants with two main digits are the largest group. Despite its vernacular name it is not a member of capra the genus that includes all other goats such as the wild goat capra aegagrus from which the domestic goat is derived. Their hooves have a hard outer case that allows them to dig into almost invisible ledges.