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Billy goat🐐

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐐Goat

Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758

עֵז הַבַּיִת (שם מדעי: Capra aegagrus hircus; ברבים: עִזִּים) היא תת-מין בסוג יעל שבמשפחת הפריים. עז הבית שבארץ ישראל בויתה כנראה מעז הבר (Capra aegagrus), שנכחדה משטחי הארץ לפני מאות שנים.

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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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Facts and figures

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
AnAge
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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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  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
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  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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