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goat

Ruminant mammal (it chews the cud), closely related to sheep. Both male and female goats have horns and beards. They are sure-footed animals, and feed on shoots and leaves more than on grass. (Genus Capra, family Bovidae.)

Domestic varieties are descended from the scimitar-horned wild goat (C. aegagrus) and have been kept for over 9,000 years in southern Europe and Asia. They are kept for milk or for mohair (angora and cashmere goats). Wild species include the ibex (C. ibex) of the Alps and markhor (C. falconeri) of the Himalayas, 1 m/3 ft high and with long twisted horns. The Rocky Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is a ‘goat antelope’ and is not closely related to true goats.
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Also, the original ancestor is thought to be similar to another tale, The Wolf and the Kids, in which a wolf pretends to be a nanny goat to gain entry to a house full of young goats.
Fairy tales more ancient than previously believed by Asian News International
We had people across the hillside but we failed on two attempts to round up some nanny goats.
Got our goat; ARMY CHOOSES NEWEST RECRUIT by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
And why would we need to change our palm oil for GM canola or rapeseed or our milk from a backyard nanny goat to milk from a cow on GM feed?
We have to say no! to GM food by Mjumbe, Kwezi / New African
 
 
 
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