Oreamnology (MOUNTAIN GOATS ARE NOT GOATS) with Julie Cunningham

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Mountain goats are not goats. And there’s only one living species, Oreamnos americanus. WHAT?? Montana-based wildlife biologist and Oreamnologist Julie Cunningham counts mountain goats from helicopters, traps and tests them for science, and spends even her off days searching for them on mountaintops. We cover their population, sensual mating habits, the feel of their wool, pungent goatwhiff, tips for hikers and how these animals defy gravity scaling near-vertical cliffs. Oh also, why your favorite trail might be delicious. Julie Cunningham’s bio A donation was made to the Rocky Mountain Goat Alliance: GoatAlliance.org You may also enjoy: Cervidology (DEER), Bovine Neuropathology (HEADBUTTING), Neuropathology (CONCUSSIONS), Cryoseismology (ICEQUAKES), Bryology (MOSS), Phenology (SEASONS) Sponsors of Ologies Transcripts and bleeped episodes Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary Website by Kelly R. Dwyer Theme song by Nick Thorburn

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's your water bottle that does not fit in your car's cup holder.
0:04.2	Why?
0:05.2	Why?
0:06.2	Alliward, it's another fresh episode.
0:08.3	I've been wanting to do this one since I saw a mountain goat in Glacier National Park
0:12.5	when I was 12, even though back then podcasts did not exist, but I started to Google whose
0:19.1	studies mountain goats up in Montana and all roads led to this wildlife biologist who
0:25.0	works with the Montana Fish and Wildlife and Parks Department to monitor and study these
0:30.1	arted actles, which are even toad ungulates.
0:34.2	Seeing one in the wild is like spotting a Pegasus.
0:38.1	And so if your job involves goat safaris for money, what kind of life do you even have?
0:44.1	We're going to find out.
0:45.1	But first, thank you to everyone who supports the show at patreon.com slash allergies.
0:48.2	It costs a buck a month to join and then you can submit questions to theologist before
0:52.4	the interview.
0:53.4	Thank you to everyone who is passing the show around, friends and rating and subscribing
0:57.6	that helps so much, leaving reviews also helps.
1:00.5	Plus, I read them all.
1:01.8	And as proof, thank you this week to Mad Dash 1213 who wrote this review.
1:07.2	This show satisfies my curiosity.
1:09.8	Even when I don't think I'm going to give a crap about a certainology, I always end up
1:13.8	caring.
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