Goats

**__GOATS:__** or Carpa aegagrus

1. REPRODUCTION:

 * In some climates goats can reproduce any time of the year.
 * Any breed comes into heat every 21 days from 2 to 48 hours.

2.DIET

 * hay
 * grain
 * oat
 * bran
 * barley
 * grasses
 * herbs
 * ferns
 * moss

3.RELATIONSHIP TO PEOPLE

 * First domesticated roughly 10,000 years ago in the Zagros Mountiains of Iran.

4.HABITAT

 * Mountains
 * Plains
 * Grasses
 * Elevations reach up to 3,000 meters or more.

5.PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

 * special teeth and digestive organs
 * even toed
 * horns that arch backward
 * short tails
 * straight hair
 * male goats or "billys" usually have beards

6.BEHAVIOR AND ADAPTIONS

 * Females can be competitive and protective.

7.RANGE

 * Mostly found through the Rocky Mountains and the Cascade Mountain Range
 * From northern Washington, Idaho, and Montana through British columbia and Alberta.

8.RELATIONSHIP TO PEOPLE

 * Some live in the zoo.
 * First domesticated roughly 10,000 years ago in the Zangros Mountains of Iran

9.HISTORY

 * related to sheep