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A video of a mountain goat sprinting across snow-covered mountains is going viral. In the thrilling video, a chamois, a goat-antelope native to European mountains, descends from the top of a mountain and passes through a deep valley within a matter of seconds. The fast pace and impressive balance of the wild animal have netizens in awe.
This video was originally posted online by Perrot Couttet Zian, a snowboarder, on his Instagram account back in March. Soon, his video was circulated across social media platforms.
On Monday, a popular Twitter page that goes by the name Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) reshared this video. So far, the clip has over 3.7 million views and thousands of likes. Commenting on the video, a Twitter user wrote, “Brings a whole new meaning to dashing through the snow”. Another person said, “Snowboarder in me is jealous.”
This is not the first video that has captured a goat and its physics-defying antics. In January this year, a video of a goat climbing a wall almost vertically had gone viral. The undated clip, posted by an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, showed the goat climbing a wall in just a few vertical jumps.
Another video that showed a herd of goats carefully jumping over concrete blocks as fast water gushes past them also went viral after IPS officer Dipanshu Kabra shared it on Twitter in July.
