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Goats
- A goat's normal body temperature is 100 to 103
degrees F.
- The second most widespread sort of domesticated
animal worldwide is the goat. (The dog is the
first.)
- Teddy Roosevelt differed from most other big
game hunters in one particular: He didn't think
the mountain goat was much of a prize.
- A mamma mountain goat almost always stands on
the downhill side of her kids.
- Goats cry real tears.
- Running wild over South America are scraggly
goats all descended from several brought over by
Christopher Columbus on his second voyage.
- Some goats can climb trees...some trees. In Morocco,
the goats like the fruit of the argan tree. They
get up as high as 20 feet to have at it.
- The first football team to have a live animal
for a mascot was the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1890.
A billy goat named Bill.
- Markhors are Asiatic mountain goats. To the Markhor
males, December 14 is a special date. Invariably
each year, that's when they race down to the
lowlands to look for mates. Nobody has figured
how they know it's December 14.
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