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| Kalash: The People of the Nine Skies |  | These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus. The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan further came to strengthen this opinion.
Ancient Greeks traded with inhabitants of very remote areas, like Himalaya and Hindu-K ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Meet a Geep: a Hybrid Between a Goat and a Sheep! |  | While scientists face political and ethic issues in getting hybrid embryos, farm animals ignore all the fuss and go on their own. Such an example is Lisa, the geep, a crossbreed between a goat and a sheep.
The lamb/kid was born following an unsuspected sexual encounter on the farm of Klaus Exsternbrink, in Schwerte, in Ruhr Valley (northern Germany) between a young billy goat and an ewe, ignoring some couple of millions years ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The American Chamois is White: Mountain Goat |  | Together with the bighorn sheep, the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is one of the symbols of the Rocky Mountains, inhabiting their rough and barren cliffs and executing amazing stunts amongst the rocks. Today, no more than 5,000 mountain goats are found, about 1,500-2,000 being encountered in the Glacier National Park (Montana) and Olympic Mountains (Washington), places in which they were transferred and quickly adapted.
... [read more >>] | | 04 February 2008, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How to Eat Thorns |  | You may have heard about the South African veld, an arid plane. Velds can be of many types, and noorsvelds refer to those where the dominant vegetation consists of noors (Euphorbia species), succulent and thorny plants, the ecological variant for cacti in Africa. But the noorsveld is a ranching area where Angora goats are raised for their extremely fine wool called mohair.
But this is a semidesert area with extremely arid wi ... [read more >>] | | 18 December 2007, 07:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Unique Albino Mountain Goat |  | Domestic goat kids can be white and fluffy (depending on the case). But that's normal, and this is a genetic pattern that does not match the genetic condition of albinism, when the brown melanin pigment cannot be synthesized.
But now, forest rangers in the northern Italian Alps have confirmed and got image proofs for the first time of the existence of an albino mountain goat, named by them "Snowflake."
&q ... [read more >>] | | 26 June 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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