Mountain Goat

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Title Mountain Goat
Common Name Mountain Goat
Scientific Name Oreamnos americanus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Craniata
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Family Bovidae
Genus Oreamnos
Subject Mammals; Places; Nature sounds
Spatial Coverage Uinta Mountains (Utah); Utah
Creator Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management Audio file copyright 2008, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, http://westernsoundscape.org. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Publisher Western Soundscape Archive; University of Utah
Date 2008-07-23
Type Sound
Format video/mp4
Digitization Specifications Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format
Contributing Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer.
Description The likely vocalizations of a mountain goat
Photo Rights Management Photo by Dave Grickson, courtesy of US Fish and Wildlife Service; Photo is public domain; http://images.fws.gov/default.cfm?fuseaction=records.display&CFID=1481993&CFTOKEN=19065376&id=82DE74AB-3C27-4684-AAD1091048E842FB
Note The recording was made in a small grove of trees on the edge of a meadow at the base of Bald Mountain in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. Time was approximately 7:00 AM. Temperature was approximately 50 degrees Fahrenheit. A recorder was left at the location and retrieved after several hours of recording. The mountain goat was not observed. Sound source voucher: US Fish and Wildlife Service. Equipment used: Sennheiser MKH30 and MKH40 microphones recording in an MS pattern to a Sound Devices 722 recorder at a 44.1 kHz/24 bit sampling rate.; Local Time: 7:00 AM
Species Range (Southwestern States) http://www.westernsoundscape.org/maps/speciesExtent.php?species=180713
Full Nature Serve Report http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchSpeciesUid=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.104036
ARK ark:/87278/s6gf16sh
Setname uu_wss
ID 1117853
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gf16sh
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