Sidehill Gougers are creatures said to inhabit the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and the southwestern sandhills of Saskatchewan. Rocky Mountain National Park (photo courtesy of NPS) The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Splendour without diminishment) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Area 944,735 km² (5th)  - Land 925,186 km²  - Water 19,549 km² (2. ...

little is known about the nature of the Sidehill Gouger as they are a rare and reclusive species, but they have one distinctive feature upon which all Sidehill Gouger spotters agree; the legs on one side of their body are significantly shorter than the legs on the other side of their body.

This unusual arrangement is due to the habitat of the Sidehill Gouger, grazing on the grasses and other vegetation of mountain slopes. They almost never come down to flatter terrain where they are unable to run well. Sidehill Gougers are believed to come in two main varieties, the left-handed Sidehill Gouger and the right-handed Sidehill Gouger (see: chirality). A left-handed Gouger always moves around a hill counterclockwise as it grazes because its left legs are shorter than its right legs, and the right-handed Gouger goes clockwise because its right legs are shorter than the left. The two varieties are sometimes known as clockwise and counterclockwise Gougers as a result. Note that these two varieties are not necessarily separate species; stories persist of rare offspring between left-handed and right-handed Gougers. Since these hybrids have awkwardly mismatched leg-lengths and usually do not survive to adulthood, however, it is not known if they are sterile mules. Genera See: List of Poaceae genera The true grasses are monocot (class Liliopsida) plants of the family Poaceae (formerly Graminae). ... In geometry, a figure is chiral (and said to have chirality) if it is not identical to its mirror image, or more particularly cant be mapped to its mirror images by rotations and translations alone. ... Clockwise can refer to: Clockwise and counterclockwise Clockwise (movie) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In biology, a species is a kind of organism. ... In its common modern meaning, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. ...

All sources agree that the Sidehill Gouger is herbivorous and quite timid. The size reached by adult Sidehill Gougers is widely disputed, on the other hand; some sources indicate that they are no larger than mountain goats, whereas others attribute major landslides to Sidehill Gougers that become turned around from their usual orientation and dig their feet into the ground for stability. It is this belief that gives the species its name. In zoology, an herbivore is an animal that is adapted to eat primarily plant matter (rather than meat). ... Genera Capricornis Nemorhaedus Rupicapra Oreamnos Budorcas Ovibos Hemitragus Ammotragus Pseudois Capra Ovis Pantholops A goat antelope is any of the species of mostly medium-sized herbivores that make up the subfamily Caprinae or the single species in subfamily Panthalopinae. ... This entry refers to the geological term landslide. ...

The notion of animals with one pair of legs longer than the other is popular: others include the Wild Haggis, the Sidehill Dodge Hodag, the Dahu, and certain breeds of mountain sheep. Supposedly, the Wild Haggis is a creature which roams free through the Scottish Highlands. ... The hodag is a fictional animal of Wisconsin in the United States. ... The dahu is a izard-like creature in Basque mythology, but there are also books that depict it as fox-like or chamois-like. ... Binomial name Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758 A sheep is any of several woolly ruminant quadrupeds, but most commonly the Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries), which probably descends from the wild moufflon of south-central and south-west Asia. ...