Goats are surprisingly adaptive and intriguing animals. They scale sheer cliffs with ease, and yoga’s no sweat either. Learn more with our fun goat facts.
10 Gnarly Goat Facts
1. Goats make versatile farm animals because they can be used for milk, meat, fabric fiber, and manure, and they can aid in land clearing.
2. Due to their surprising ability to shepherd larger animals like horses and cattle, miniature goats are often used as herd companions.
3. Goat hair is used to produce mohair, cashmere, and cashgora fibers.
4. The Tennessee fainting goat is a breed that carries a disorder that causes its muscles to remain rigidly locked after being frightened, forcing the goat to fall over until the muscles relax.
5. Goats that don’t have a herd of their own are sometimes found living in herds of other hoofed animals, such as horses or cows.
6. Pygmy goats are small enough that they can live in a doghouse.
7. Although domestic goats are tamed animals, goats are herd creatures and don’t usually thrive as mere pets.
8. Goat’s milk is sometimes used in soap making because its fats moisturize human skin.
9. Contrary to popular depictions, goats do not eat tin cans. This myth probably came about because goats will eat the paper covering on tin cans.
10. Elizabethan explorer Captain James Cook (1728 –1779) dropped goats off on the coasts of South Pacific islands, for the purpose of having them there for food in case of shipwreck.
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