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Goats
Capra
Capra is a genus of mammals, the goats, composed of up to nine species, including the wild goat, the markhor, and several species known as ibex. The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a domesticated subspecies of the wild goat (Capra aegagrus). Evidence of goat domestication dates back more than 8,500 years.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species
Domestic Goat
speciesCapra hircus
Alpine Ibex
speciesCapra ibex
Iberian Ibex
speciesCapra pyrenaica
Nubian Ibex
speciesCapra nubiana
Siberian Ibex
speciesCapra sibirica
Wild Goat
speciesCapra aegagrus
West Caucasian Tur
speciesCapra caucasica
Markhor
speciesCapra falconeri
East Caucasian Tur
speciesCapra cylindricornis
Walia Ibex
speciesCapra walie
Capra aegagrus × hircus
hybridCapra aegagrus × hircus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ten Books of Exotic Things
Carolus Clusius · 1605 · p.557
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.911
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.354
Medical and Philosophical Garden
Joachim Camerarius · 1588 · p.353
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 2 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.12
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 42348.