Search results for "Wild goat" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The domestic goat is descended from the wild goat, Capra aegagrus ... *The wild goat, or Bezoar goat, Capra aegagrus, is found in Afghanistan ...
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  • [[Image:Goat with spiral horns.jpg|thumb|250px|A goat with spiral horns]] ... (musk deer, which are ruminants), Suidae (wild boars), Proboscidea (elephants ...
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  • and instead are limited to capture in their wild state. Creatures such as the ... produce fertile hybrids with native, wild animals which leads to genetic ...
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  • of years. There are also several species of wild sheep. ... Wild sheep are mostly found in hilly or mountainous habitats. They ...
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  • that reaches nearly to the ground. The wild population is small and restricted ... , and are used as pack and draft animals. Wild yaks also are hunted for food ...
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  • West, the image of the unicorn has a billy-goat beard, a lion's tail ... to animals that live in large groups in the wild and have regularly been hunted ...
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  • animals, semi-domestic animals, or captive wild animals. Semi-domesticated ... undergrowth. For example, in areas prone to wild fires, goats and sheep are ...
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  • in the Book of Leviticus, wherein a goat was symbolically infused with ... for the scapegoat. Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD ...
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  • of gifts at Christmas time was the Yule Goat, a somewhat startling figure ... * Siefker, Phyllis. Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men: The Origins ...
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  • Reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, are an Arctic ... are shorter-legged and heavier than their wild counterparts. The caribou ...
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  • scientific name for a taxon of medium-sized wild cats of North America, Europe ... was the original genus into which these wild cats were originally placed. ...
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  • cats (leopards, cheetahs, lions), hyenas, wild dogs, and crocodiles. They ... Leopards, cheetah, Nile crocodiles, lions, spotted hyenas, and wild ...
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  • is also home to wildlife, including African wild asses. ... The lake area is wild and desert-like, and no fauna or flora can be ...
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  • The name wildebeest derives from the Dutch and Afrikaans words wild ... appear to remain any animals that are truly wild (Taylor 2004). They may have ...
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  • to follow the animals, collecting the wild beans (garmut) which sprung ... was was eventually extended to all animals of the wild. ...
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  • the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, with the upper body and hands ... retinue of Dionysus, as well as those of wild landscapes in ancient Greece ...
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  • the rainy season. Previously havens for wild animals from elephants to ... the oryx or gemsbok, warthogs, cheetahs, wild dogs, leopards, and many species ...
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  • lands also provide a home for a wide variety of wild animals. Some parts of Eastern Africa have garnered worldwide fame for their heavy concentrations ...
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  • Altai argali, the world's largest breed of wild sheep. ... maral, and musk-deer. Siberian mountain goat, brown bear, lynx and glutton ...
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  • The Puck Fair circa 1900, showing the wild goat (King Puck) atop his & ... beginning of the three-day festival, a wild goat is brought into the town ...
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  • * Sheep-goat hybrids, such as the The Toast of Botswana. ... such as the Lijagulep. Various other wild cat crosses are known involving ...
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  • hunted large animals; the other being the wild boar. Besides the meat, the ... different in captivity than in the wild, and the assumption that the ...
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  • Wild game and ham are popular in Champagne as well as the special ... Fish are seen in the cuisine as well as wild game, lamb, calves, Charolais ...
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  • in the riverbed and are competing for food with wild animals, such as gemsboks. == Notes == == References == * Barnard, Phoebe. Biological Diversity ...
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  • Jews have a custom of not eating lamb or goat during the Seder in deference to the absence of the Temple. Many Sephardic Jews, however, have ...
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  • Enki's symbols included a goat and a fish. These later combined ... :There was no hyena, there was no lion, there was no wild dog, no wolf, ...
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  • honors fall to Lechuguilla Cave, a "wild" cave not normally open ... stalagmite. Rangers regularly lead special wild cave tours to this location. ...
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  • permission from Kamehameha to capture the wild cattle and develop a beef ... It was not until the advent of the Wild West shows that cowgirls came ...
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  • animal species such as rabbit, puma, lynx, deer, wild goat/sheep, whale, turtle, tuna, sardine, octopus, eagle and pelican; there are also abstract ...
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  • either side. This shofar was the horn of a wild goat, straight in shape, and ornamented with gold at the mouthpiece. On fasting days, the principal ...
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  • who have increased erosion throughout the landscape. Wild cats hunt endemic bird species, and have drastically reduced their numbers. Invasive plants ...
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  • promotes the abundant fauna need to support wild life. Wild life abounds; jungle ... word Kazi in the Karbi language means "Goat," and Rangai means "Red ...
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  • called the "Danse sauvage" ("wild dance"); dressed in nothing ... leopard, a chimpanzee, a pig, a snake, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish ...
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  • colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat out of Laban's flocks ... telling Jacob that he had been killed by a wild beast. ...
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  • have been eradicated (pigs in 2002; goat eradication is nearing finalization ... introduce disease into the endemic and wild bird populations. ...
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  • While encounters with the brown bear in the wild can be dangerous ... about 680 kilograms (1,500 lb). The largest wild Kodiak bear on record weighed ...
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  • animal species such as rabbit, puma, lynx, deer, wild goat/sheep, whale, turtle, tuna, sardine, octopus, eagle, and pelican; there are also abstract ...
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  • abundantly and support a host of insects, wild and domestic herbivores, larks ... grazing pressure due to domestic and wild herbivores on the land. Yaks ...
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  • Jewish Passover song Had gadya (One Goat), in which Lissitzky showcased ... in construction), where some of his most wild experiments with book design ...
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  • Worldwide population of elk, counting those on farms and in the wild ... captivity but average 10 to 13 years in the wild. In some subspecies that suffer ...
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  • consisting of a heifer, a ram, a she-goat, a dove and a pigeon. A "dread ... to promise that the child will be "a wild ass of a man, his hand against ...
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  • derived from yams, do not require a prescription. Wild yams contain a plant steroid called diosgenin, which the human body cannot metabolize into progesterone ...
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  • Historically, a goat herding and subsistence farming people, the Kalash ... wheat that involved the blood of a small goat, and he asked for wheat tribute ...
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  • known for its fine leather products made from wild camels native to the area. The Government of India initiated departmental exploration for oil ...
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  • :Wild bull Dumuzi, make your milk sweet and thick. :I will drink your ... :Let the milk of the goat flow in my sheepfold. :Fill my holy churn ...
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  • An adult goat, which is a typical example of a vitamin C-producing ... pdf Micronutrient intakes of wild primates: Are humans different ...
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  • rabies, which can make a human act like a wild animal, have been cited by ... to European legends), sunlight, a branch of wild rose, the hawthorn plant, ...
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  • Hay is any grass, legume, or other herbaceous plant, cultivated or ... (covering up to 50 miles-per-day in the wild) and their stomach digests ...
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  • difficult to determine. In his book, The Wild Frontier: Atrocities During ... * Osborn, William M. The Wild Frontier: Atrocities During the American ...
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  • parks in which these animals can be observed. The wild dogs, hyenas, and jackals that fed upon the larger game have also largely disappeared. ...
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