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Billy goat🐐

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐐Goat

Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758

بز (نام علمی: Capra aegagrus hircus) یک زیرگونه اهلی‌شده از راستهٔ جفت‌سمان (Artiodactyla)، خانوادهٔ گاوان (Bovidae)، سرده بزهای کوهی (Capra) و گونه بز وحشی (C. aegagrus). گاهی برای تفکیک میان دو جنسیت این جانور جنس ماده(زن) آن را «بُز» و جنس نر(مرد) آن را «کَل»، «یوور»، «تَکّه» یا «پازن» می‌گویند. نخستین نشانه‌های اهلی‌سازی بز در ایران یافت شد که مربوط به حدود ۱۰٬۰۰۰ سال پیش از میلاد است. بزها بسته به این که در چه گله‌ای هستند، دارای لهجه متفاوتی می‌باشند.

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Also called
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

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
61 kg
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

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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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
155 days
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Volume l
61 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Goat yet: body length, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyBovidae
  6. ›genusCapra
  7. ›speciesCapra hircus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. familyBovidae
  4. subfamilyCaprinae
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderRuminantia
  13. infraorderPecora
  14. familyBovidae
  15. subfamilyCaprinae
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Closest relative on this site
🐃 Alpine ibex — last shared an ancestor ≈ 2.2 million years ago.
In other languages
koza (pl), Hausziege (de), chèvre (fr), geit (nb), ماعز (ar), домашна коза (bg) … and 28 more languages

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