See also: Goat (homonymy)

The goat is a Mammifère Herbivore and Ruminant, pertaining to the family of the Bovidé S, subfamily of caprinés or the caprine S. the goat was domesticated for a very long time, especially for its Viande, its skin and, more especially in the Mediterranean region, for its milk.

General information

It is an animal of small size, with arched horns, very nimble, particularly adapted to the jump. One finds it in all the areas of the sphere, particularly in Montagne. The males are called Bouc S, small “the Chevreau X” or “kids”, or on a familiar mode “kids”.

The goats can be in a wild state, (see Capra aegagrus) but most of the time, they are domesticated. Their Domestication is old (at least). They are high for their milk, their leather, their hair and their meat, which is already mentioned in the Bible: for example, in the book of the Genesis, Rebecca prepares with his/her husband Isaac two kids so that Isaac blesses Jacob (Gn 27:9). Lastly, of the goats of dwarf species are also high like pets.

Some Race S are especially high for their hairs: it is the case of the goat's milk cheese angora, originating in Turkey (Angora is the old name of Ankara) of which the hair is used to produce the Mohair, it is also the case of the goat of the Cachemire; others only for the meat, like the race Kiko.

The goats have all 60 Chromosome S.

Systematic

One gave to the caprine servants the scientific name of Capra hircus at the 18th century, before the development of the evolutionary Biologie. With the development of this one, the close relation between domestic and wild races was recognized. For this reason, the scientific statute of the domestic “species” at summer called into question, and much of biologists do not regard them any more from now on but as domesticated forms of the Espèce S original savages.

A species indeed consists of “groups of natural populations, indeed or potentially interfécondes, which is genetically isolated from other similar groups”. However, the domestic “species” cross with their species relationship when they on the occasion of it. “Considering, at least with regard to the races of pets primitive, those would constitute, in general, an entity of reproduction with their ancestral species, if they had the possibility of it, the classification of pets as clean species is not acceptable. This is why one tried to define them as subspecies”.

One then gives to the new subspecies the name of the species of origin, supplemented by the name of subspecies (which takes again the second part of the old name of species) and since approximately 1960, one uses designation " more and more; forma" , shortened " f" , which expresses clearly that it is about the shape of pet which can possibly go up to various wild subspecies: Capra aegagrus F. hircus

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