- Pizza Park, from Smithsonian Magazine
- Old Goats in Transition, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
- Exploring the history of human interaction with plants and animals, from NMNH
Goats and people
Goats were first domesticated in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago.
Here's looking at you
The pupil in a goat's eye is rectangular in shape instead of being round.
Who's who
Male: buck or billy
Female: doe or nanny
Young male or female: kid
Wild cousins
Goats are in the
Bovidae family, which includes gazelles, antelopes, buffaloes, and ibexes, as well as sheep and cows. At the National Zoo, you can see: Speke's gazelle and bison.
