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Key facts
- Conservation status
- FAO (2007): not at risk DAD-IS (2021): not at risk
- Other names
- Angora Goat Ankara Kecisi Tiftik-Kecisi Mohair goat Sybokke (South Africa)
- Country of origin
- Turkey
- Distribution
- worldwide
- Use
- mohair meat
- Weight
- Male: 45 kg (99 lbs) Female: 35 kg (77 lbs)
- Height
- Male: 66 cm Female: 51 cm
- Wool colour
- usually white; also black, brown or grey
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Angora or Ankara is a Turkish breed of domesticated goat. It produces the lustrous fibre known as mohair. It is widespread in many countries of the world. Many breeds derive from it, among them the Indian Mohair, the Soviet Mohair, the Angora-Don of the Russian Federation and the Pygora in the United States.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Angora goat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.