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"Billy goat" redirects here. For the Lance Corporal in the Royal Welsh, see William Windsor (goat). For the "urban legend", see Curse of the Billy Goat. Domestic Goat Conservation status Domesticated Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Subfamily: Caprinae Genus: Capra Species: C. aegagrus Subspecies: C. a. hircus Trinomial name Capra aegagrus hircus (Linnaeus, 1758) The domestic goat (Capra aegagrushircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep:both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of goat The Modern English word goat comes from the Old English gat which meant "she-goat", and this in turn derived. |
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