#0265 · 🦊 mammals
Mountain Goat
🇳🇱 Sneeuwgeit ·Oreamnos americanus
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what is it?
The mountain goat ( Oreamnos americanus ), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat , is a large hoofed mammal endemic to North America. A subalpine to alpine species, it is a sure-footed climber commonly seen on cliffs and ice.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 10,493 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1816 (210 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mountain Goat
- Nederlands
- Sneeuwgeit
- scientific name
- Oreamnos americanus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Bovidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 10,493
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1816 by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42414, Wikidata Q242602, GBIF 2441151, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.