Greatest (Facts) Of All Time
Sunday
Goats can be taught their name and learn to respond when called.
Monday
Goats and sheep are very similar, and some sheep even have horns, but they aren’t the same. Three quick and easy ways to tell the difference are that sheep have wooly thick hair, but goats don’t, sheep tails are longer and point down, but short goat tails point up, and sheep stick to eating clover and low grasses while goats eat taller-growing plants and otherwise have a more adventurous diet.
Tuesday
The depiction of Satan and demons with goat or ram-like horns only goes back several hundred years. Satan’s features aren’t described in the Bible, and during Christianity’s first millennia, he was more often depicted with snake, dragon, fallen angel, or other features.
Wednesday
Mountain goats are among the world’s best climbing animals, able to scale near-vertical rock surfaces, in part due to a hoof design that effectively locks each step in place with minimum slippage.
Thursday
Since young goats are called kids, goat birth is called kidding. This is not a joke.
Friday
Goats, like horses and sheep, have pupils which are not round but long and horizontal. It turns out this gives them a wider field of vision, perfect for spotting predators even while they’re grazing. They can also take in more light for better vision overall, yet not be blinded when the sun is bright.
Saturday
The domestication of goats is among the most historical of any animal. Evidence of their domestication goes back about 11,000 years.