Hidden facts about mountain goats you have to know

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Despite their name, mountain goats are not goats at all, nor are they closely related to them, the Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) is the only living representative of its genus, its closest living relatives are the chamoises (genus Rupicapra), both genera Oreamnos and Rupicapra are grouped together into the subtribe Rupicaprina, which belongs to the tribe Naemorhedini, which groups both the chamoises and mountain goat with the gorals (genus Naemorhedus) and serows (genus Capricornis) of the subtribe Naemorhedina, Naemorhedini is now one of three tribes included within the subfamily Ovibovinae, Ovibovinae is a subfamily of bovids native mostly to Eurasia and lives mostly in cold-climate habitats, the three tribes within the subfamily Ovibovinae are Hemitragini (Tahrs (contains 3 genera: Arabitragus, Nilgiritragus, and Hemitragus)), Naemorhedini (Gorals, Serows, Chamoises, and Mountain Goat (contains 4 genera: Oreamnos, Rupicapra, Capricornis, and Naemorhedus)), and Ovibovini (Muskox and Takin (contains 2 genera: Budorcas and Ovibos)), it is shown that the tahrs (tribe Hemitragini) are the most basal extant tribe of ovibovines, while the tribe Naemorhedini is the sister group to the tribe Ovibovini, it is also found out that the subfamily Ovibovinae (Muskox, Takin, Gorals, Serows, Chamoises, Mountain Goat, and Tahrs) is fairly similar to and most closely related to the subfamilies Hippotraginae (Grazing Antelope) and Alcelaphinae (Hartebeests, Wildebeests, Hirola, Tsessebe, Topi, Korrigum, Taing, and Hirola).