A private goat ATC swap between communikate and crescendo!
Some fun goat facts to fill this space:
- The proper name for a group of goats is a trip.
- Goats are great swimmers.
- If bottled raised, goats will become bonded to their caregivers.
- Goats were domesticated around 7000 B.C.
- Domestic goats are found worldwide.
- Pygmy goats are a goat species, not a breed.
- There are six recognized dairy goat breeds in the United States: Alpine, La Mancha, Oberhasli, Nubian, Saanen, Toggenburg.
- Each breed of dairy goat gives a different tasting milk. Oberhasli goats give milk that tastes closest to cow's milk.
- Goat's discovered coffee beans.
- Goat milk has a higher butterfat content than cow's milk.
- Hearty seafarers, goats were kept by sailors for milk.
- Ancient Greeks used goat skins to make vellum and parchment.
- Goats are depicted in Paleolithic art.
- True wild goats are found throughout southern Asia.
- The Ibex (another wild goat species) populates Europe, Asia and Africa.
- Matriarchal herds of goats consist of 5 to 20 individuals.
- Goats are browsers, not grazers.
- Goats are extremely picky about what they eat.
- Goats DO NOT eat tin cans.
- Goats have only bottom front and side teeth, the top jaw does have a large back molar for crushing things.
- Goats have rectangular eyes - this allows them to see very well in the dark.
- Goats contribute to desertification in Africa.
- The Rocky Mountain "goat" is not a true goat; it is closer to a sheep.
- Wild goats don't sleep.
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