goat
domesticated mammal raised for its meat and milk
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Summary
goat is a taxon[1]. goat ranks in the top 0.077% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23,203 views/month, #151 of 195,241).[2]
Key Facts
- Taxon rank: subspecies[3]
- Parent taxon: Wild Goat[4]
- Taxon name: Capra aegagrus hircus[5]
- Subclass of: domesticated mammal[6], productive animal[7]
- Has use: meat[8], milk[9]
- Commons category: Goats[10]
- Unicode character: 🐐[11]
- Has part(s): horn[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Goats[13]
- Depicted by: Jupiter nursed by the she-goat Amalthea[14], Figura femminile sdraiata con capra[15], Pan and a Goat mating, from the Villa of the Papyri[16], Capriccio with Classical Arch and Goats[17]
- Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20], New International Encyclopedia[21]
- This taxon is source of: goat milk[22], goat meat[23], goat hair[24], goat meat dish[25]
- Taxon common name: Goat[26], Domestic Goat[27], Hausziege[28], koza[29], cabra[30]
- Different from: Koza[31], greatest of all time[32]
- Life expectancy: 15 years[33]
- Gestation period: 22 week[34]
- Heart rate: 75 beats per minute[35]
- Longest observed lifespan: 20.8 years[36]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[37]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Goats[38]
- Litter size: 2[39]
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Identifiers
goat's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 123070[40].
Discovery and Description
Things named for goat include goatee[41]; tragus[42], an organism subdivision type[43]; Staog[44], a computer virus[45]; and Geißhorn[46], a mountain[47], in Germany[48].
Why It Matters
goat has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] goat is known by 104 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]
Entities named for goat include goatee[41]; tragus[42], an organism subdivision type[43]; Staog[44], a computer virus[45]; and Geißhorn[46], a mountain[47], in Germany[48].