Sidehill Gouger

SIDEHILL GOUGER is a mythical animal of the arid Interior benchlands beside the FRASER and THOMPSON rivers. Because it grazes on the steep slopes, it is said to have legs shorter on one side of its body than the other, supposedly accounting for the pattern of horizontal tracks circling the hillsides. Of course, this means that the animal cannot turn around without falling down and so it travels in only one direction. Curiously, no specimen has ever been sighted.

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