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GOAT (a See also: European ruminant (Capra hircus), which has for all See also: time been regarded as the emblem of everything that is evil, in contradistinction to the See also: sheep, which is the See also: symbol of excellence and purity
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Although the more typical goats are markedly distinct from sheep, there is, both as regards See also: wild and domesticated forms, an almost See also: complete gradation from goats to sheep, so that it is exceedingly difficult to define either See also: group
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The position of the genus Capra (to all the members of which, as well as some allied See also: species, the name " goat " in its wider sense is applicable) in the See also: family See also: Bovidae is indicated in the article BOVIDAE, and some of the distinctions between goats and sheep are mentioned in the article SHEEP
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Here then it will suffice to mention that goats are characterized by the strong and offensive odour of the See also: males, which are furnished with a See also: beard on the See also: chin; while as a general See also: rule glands are See also: present between the See also: middle toes of the fore feet only
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Goats, in the wild See also: state, are an exclusively old-See also: world group, of which the more typical forms are confined to See also: Europe and See also: south-western and central See also: Asia, although there are two outlying species in See also: northern See also: Africa The wild goat, or pasang, is represented in Europe in the See also: Cyclades and Crete by rather small races
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1,
183o, written 16o8–161o) ; P
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Baldaeus, in See also: Churchill's Voyages,
vol
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3 (See also: London, 1732) ; J
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Fryer, A New Account of See also: East See also: India
and See also: Persia (London, 1698) ; A. de Mandelslo, Voyages (London,
1669) ; See also: Les Voyages de M. de Thevenot aux lades Orientales (Amster-See also: dam, 1799), and A
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See also: Hamilton, A New Account of the East Indies (London, 1774)
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For
See also: Goa in the 2oth century see The Imperial Gazetteer of India
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