Now there's two types of side-hills. There's the left-hand and the right-hand. They're a weird little animal. They never come down on the flats. The only way you can catch them is get them down on a piece of flat ground, because they can't run on flat ground.

A left-hand side-hill gouger always moves around a hill counter-clockwise, because its left legs are shorter than its right legs. That's a left-hand gouger. The right-hand gouger has to go clockwise around the hill, because his right legs are shorter than the left. This is because of spending all of their lives on the hill.

Now it's weird, it's real weird. You ought to see when a left-hand female meets up with a right-hand male-because their offspring are reeeeally something! They could have one long right front leg and one long left rear leg. Now these poor bastards-they don't know which way they're supposed to go around the mountain. So they usually find just the spot where they can stand comfortably, and their feet will be out [splayed] and they just stay there. And the others will bring food to them. There's not too many [of] those poor things. They [have] such a rough life, I think most of them are killed off. Same as the icegedunks.