Can goats fly?

Derrick Halsey is a wildlife capture specialist known as a "mugger." He hands off a kid mountain goat to be lifted by a helicopter. (AP)
A pair of mountain goats, a billy (top) and a nanny, are being set down on the back of a truck after they were airlifted by helicopter to a park in Washington. (AP)
A pair of blindfolded and tied mountain goats are cradled by workers in the back of a truck after their helicopter ride. (AP)
Pieces of hose cover a goat’s horns as it is handled during its trip to a new home. (AP)
Derrick Halsey carries a kid mountain goat after its helicopter ride in Olympic National Park, Washington. (AP)

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Look! Those goats are flying. They sit safely in a sling. They dangle in the air. Where are they going? The helicopter flies them to a new mountain home.

READ MORE: There are too many mountain goats in Washington State’s Olympic National Park. They belong in the Cascade Mountains. How do you move goats? People first catch them. Each goat gets a good check-up and a collar. This will help scientists keep track of them. Then the goats take a helicopter ride. They hang below it. The helicopter sets the goats down at their new home. Psalm 104:18 says, “The high mountains are for the wild goats.”