| SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION |
| COMMON NAME: | domestic goat, goat |
| KINGDOM: | Animalia |
| PHYLUM: | Chordata |
| CLASS: | Mammalia |
| ORDER: | Artiodactyla |
| FAMILY: | Bovidae |
| GENUS SPECIES: | Capra (goat) hircus |
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| FAST FACTS |
| DESCRIPTION: | The domestic goat has cloven hooves, a long beard on its chin, a short and upward-turned tail, and horns that grow upward from the head instead of twisting to the sides like those of sheep. The hair is straight with a woolly undercoat during winter. |
| SIZE: | Approximately 70-120 cm (28-48 in.) |
| WEIGHT: | 45-54 kg (100-120 lb.) |
| DIET: | Browser: Includes fresh or dried grasses, foliage of trees, shrubs, bushes, and various other plants. If permitted to graze an area, they will almost strip the land completely causing irreversible damage. |
| GESTATION: | Gestation lasts approximately 150 days; usually 1-2 offspring |
| SEXUAL MATURITY: | 4-18 months |
| LIFE SPAN: | Approximately 15 years |
| RANGE: | Global; maintained and/or feral on every continent except |
| HABITAT: | Varied; including mountain steppe, grasslands, and desert |
| POPULATION: | GLOBAL | Roughly 600 million maintained worldwide (not including feral populations) |
| STATUS: | IUCN | Not listed |
| CITES | Not listed | |
| USFWS | Not listed |
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