Goats

The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. It was one of the first animals to be domesticated, in Iran around 10,000 years ago.

genus of mammals

species of mammal

thumb|upright=1.35|Scapegoat ceremony depicted at [[Lincoln Cathedral in stained glass: "[Aaron] is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat. Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the Lord and sacrifice it for a sin offering. But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat." (NIV, Leviticus 16:7–10)]]

thumb|"And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for Azazel." Lincoln Cathedral thumb|The Scapegoat (painting)|The Scapegoat, by [[William Holman Hunt, 1854]] thumb|Illustration of Azazel in Dictionnaire infernal by Collin de Plancy (1863) In the Hebrew Bible, the name Azazel (; ʿĂzāʾzēl) represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was sent during Yom Kippur. During the late Second Temple period (after the closure of the Hebrew Bible canon), Azazel came to be viewed as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to

liquid food produced by female goats

meat from the domestic goat used as food

thumb|left|Adult female in natural habitat, Samaria Gorge National Park The kri-kri (Capra hircus cretica), sometimes called the Cretan goat, Agrimi, or Cretan Ibex, is a feral goat inhabiting the Eastern Mediterranean, previously considered a subspecies of wild goat. The kri-kri today is found only in Greece: specifically on Crete and on three small islands off its coast (Dia, Thodorou, and Agii Pantes); as well as on the island of Sapientza (Messenian Oinousses) off the southwestern coast of Peloponnese, where it was brought in great numbers in order to protect the species from extinction.

Scandanavian decorative Christmas straw goat

the raising and breeding of domestic goats

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thumb|Male Alpine ibex An ibex ( : ibex, ibexes or ibices) also known as the Old World Mountain goat, is any of several species of wild goat (genus Capra), distinguished by the male's large curved horns, which are transversely ridged in front. Ibex are found in Eurasia, North Africa and East Africa.

16th‐century Jewish song

hybrid mammal

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species of bacterium

curse on the Chicago Cubs

farm building

furreds skin of a goat

Abbreviation of "greatest of all time"

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thumb|Angora goat at the Texas State Fair.

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animal herding term

former Spanish festivity