Goat Facts

Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.

In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat. It is usually made of straw. Scandinavian Christmas festivities feature a variety of straw decorations in the form of stars, angels, hearts and other shapes, as well as t

Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

Goats do not have upper front teeth.

Rather than using mechanical mowers, Google regularly employs a flock of 200 goats to naturally mow and fertilise the lawns.

A 'geep' is a very rare goat-sheep hybrid or chimera.

Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and thought that she “sounded like a goat”.

Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.

At the Pakistan Stock Exchange, goats have been sacrificed to ward off computer glitches and technical problems that disrupt trading.

Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have horizontal, rectangular-shaped pupils that give them a nearly 360-degree field of vision.

Since 1966, the Swedish city of Gavle has built a giant straw Christmas goat in the town square. Arsonists have burned it down 43 out of 60 years. The city tried guards, CCTV, fences, and fireproofing. In 2005, attackers dressed as Santa and a Gingerbread Man shot it with flaming arrows. In 1976, an American tourist burned it down and told police he thought it was a tradition.