🐐Goat

Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758

The goat or domestic goat is a species of goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae and is closely related to the sheep. It was one of the first animals to be domesticated, in Iran around 10,000 years ago.

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Domestic Goat

Conservation status

NENot evaluated

IUCN Red List assessment, 2008.

Population trendStable

Key measurements

Body mass: 61 kg
Body length: not recorded
Shoulder height: 0.64 m
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: 21 years

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Everything we know about the Goat

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Body mass

61 kg

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Shoulder height

0.64 mnot stated

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ADW: "Typically, adults weigh 45 kg and be 64 cm tall." (sic). Source says 'tall' without specifying withers; taken as height of the standing quadruped, method not stated. No acceptable source stating a species-typical range across breeds was found (FAO publishes per-breed withers heights only).

Source: Mileski 2004, 'Capra hircus', Animal Diversity Web, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Capra_hircus/ · see citation

Maximum lifespan

21 years

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Gestation

155 days

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