Goat
Capra aegagrus hircus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Capra aegagrus hircus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Medium (1–2 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Habitat
- Grassland, Mountains
- Conservation status
- Not evaluated (domestic)
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- In an experiment, goats remembered how to open a puzzle box ten months after they had last seen it.
- Goats were among the first animals kept by farmers, more than 10,000 years ago.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q2934 · All animals · All entries