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Shedding Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) on edge of alpine meadow in the Beartooth Mountains near the Wyoming/Montana border. This goat is shedding its heavy winter coat of fur to a new "summer weight" fur coat which will grow long again for the next winter. Summer.
©Tom & Pat Leeson
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