17 January 2018, 07:59
Sagebrush Burnsgoat question
This came up at my home tonight: cows=bovine, sheep=ovine, horses=equine, etc. What are goats?
17 January 2018, 08:27
Heeler75Range maggot.
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
17 January 2018, 08:29
StonecreekCaprids, or capridae. Sometimes eaten by canids or felines.
Actually, sheep and goats both belong to the caprinae subfamily, which is under the family of bovines:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Genus: Ovis
However, these are all traditional classifications based on physiology and taxonomy. Some "rearranging" among the subfamilies and genus is going on with some animals due to DNA analysis which sometimes indicates different lineages than the physical body would have one assume.
18 January 2018, 05:13
Fjoldquote:
Originally posted by Sagebrush Burns:
This came up at my home tonight: cows=bovine, sheep=ovine, horses=equine, etc. What are goats?
Bar-B-Que
18 January 2018, 05:31
FourtyonesixYup. Bovine. But don’t get excited for a nice steak off one.
18 January 2018, 17:09
huntfish1963quote:
Originally posted by Stonecreek:
Caprids, or capridae. Sometimes eaten by canids or felines.
Actually, sheep and goats both belong to the caprinae subfamily, which is under the family of bovines:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Genus: Ovis
However, these are all traditional classifications based on physiology and taxonomy. Some "rearranging" among the subfamilies and genus is going on with some animals due to DNA analysis which sometimes indicates different lineages than the physical body would have one assume.
Not pronghorns. They belong to Antilocapridae all by themselves.
29 January 2018, 02:28
AtkinsonTwo kinds of goats in texas, Spanish goats, great eating animal if young; and the hair goat, (Mohair goats)....Ive never met a Capra!
