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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Wild Goat

Capra aegagrus Erxleben, 1777

The wild goat is a goat species, inhabiting forests, shrublands and rocky areas ranging from Turkey and the Caucasus in the west to Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in the east. It has been listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by habitat destruction and degradation.

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
61 kg
Body length
1.6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Everything we know about the Wild 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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Body length
1.6 m
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Brain mass
111 g
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Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Generation length
5.74 years
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Age at maturity
1.4 years
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Gestation
156 days
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Litter size
about 2
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
98 km²
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Population density
7.58 per km²
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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 Wild Goat yet: shoulder height, 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
🐐 Goat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 0.0 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
koza bezoarowa (pl), Chèvre sauvage (fr), 들염소 (ko), עז הבר (he), cabra salvaje (es), vadkecske (hu) … and 25 more languages
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