Small reddish-brown goat with black socks, black spine, black ears.

Goat

reddish-brown goat with a black face, black socks, black spine, black ears, black belly. Both male and female grow horns.

goat

Larger than a Saint Bernard, smaller than a Great Dane.

30"

120 lbs

There is no variance in color, male or female, they all look the same.

wattles

fur

timid

running in a herd.

20 mph

produces milk, meat.

Not fast, easy to catch.

bleating

round droppings.

smell

taste

bushes and trees

shrubs, leaves, grasses, fruit

Can be found wild in the high tree lines in the summer and in the winter they come down to lower elevations. Not many wild ones left, mostly domestic.

Travel in large herds, female led.

Deer, elk, moose

Bears, big cats, humans.

grass, leaves

Oberhasli's Shadow Deer

wild oberhasli

humans domesticated them.

domestic goats are meatier with higher fat content in their milk

1 year

Goats come into heat and start hanging out around the opposite sex.

sexual

1-3 kids per year.

Highly defensive of young.

nursing kids until 3 months then they start to graze. Males have no role in raising kids.

domestically depends on how many are used for meat. in the wild 50% mortality.

Animalia

Arteodactyla

Bovidae

Capra

aegagrus