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What

Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)

Observer

theo_witsell

Date

September 4, 2013 01:39 PM HST

Description

This is the legendary "Wild Goat of Devil's Eyebrow", which may no longer be extant. I heard rumors of him from locals when I was doing a botanical inventory of what is now Devil's Eyebrow Natural Area. The story was that he was the last remnant of a herd kept by a hermit who lived in a cave there some years before. I saw the goat along the shore of Beaver Lake several times and also found the cave, full of goat droppings, trash, and leftover hermit gear. I last saw the goat in 2014 or 2015 with a severe limp and pretty emaciated. The cave has since been cleaned out.

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