Please note: The Pizza Playground at Kids' Farm is closed and will open again later this summer, for the construction of a new pizza. The new Pizza Playground will reopen at the "Pizza Party" on June 29, 2013.
- Old Goats in Transition, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
- Exploring the history of human interaction with plants and animals, from NMNH
Goats and people
Goats were first domesticated in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago.Here's looking at you
The pupil in a goat's eye is rectangular in shape instead of being round.Who's who
Male: buck or billyFemale: doe or nanny
Young male or female: kid
Wild cousins
Goats are in the Bovidae family, which includes gazelles, antelopes, buffaloes, and ibexes, as well as sheep and cows. At the National Zoo, you can see dama gazelles and scimitar-horned oryx.
