The oil lamp has a solid handle and two openings for oil. It is decorated with a goat, which appears to be in motion, and with flowers and hearts on the sides.

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A proud but scruffy looking mountain goat stands in front of a large tree and blue sky.

Mountain goats on a rock cliff

This interactive vocabulary site on farm animals includes not only the correct Spanish pronunciation of nouns, but some verbs, as well as sounds that the animals make. Pop-ups of the correct spelling are included.

Investigate the world of the Markhor and discover information on the appearance, habitat, and conservation status of this wild goat. Includes images and statistics.

A video slide show of George Seurat's drawings: "Woman Reading in the Studio," "Tree by a Road," "Lighthouse at Honfleur," "Pierre and Colombine," "Drawbridge," "The Ragpicker," "Antique Statue, Satyr With Goat," and others. Narrator...

Learn about the Satyrs, half-man and half-goat mythological creatures, whose leader was Pan.

The people now known as the "Mamprusi" occupy the East and West Mamprusi districts of northern Ghana. Agriculture and animal husbandry provide subsistence for most of the population. Sheep, goats, pigeons, fowl, and guinea foul are kept...

The Ganda are a group of people who live in the province of Buganda in Uganda. The Ganda are primarily an agricultural society; their staple crops are bananas and yams. Cotton was introduced as a market crop early in the twentieth...

The Iraqw are an agrico-pastoral people who live in north-central Tanzania. With the expansion of their territory, the Iraqw have come to interact and coexist with other ethnic groups. Maize is the staple crop of the Iraqw; it is...

Bamileke is a collective term referring to a loose agglomeration of some 100 kingdoms or chiefdoms of the eastern Grassfields in the Western Province of Cameroon. These kingdoms have similar cosmology and social and political structures;...

Bedouin societies are found in the arid steppe regions of Arabia and North Africa and along the margins of rain-fed cultivation. Bedouin groups move their animals to areas where pasture is regularly found. Often these societies plant...

The Dogon are a group of about 250,000 people who live primarily in the districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in the western African nation of Mali. They are primarily agriculturists, their principal crops being millet, sorghum, rice,...

The term "Bakhtiari" refers to a group of people and the area they occupy. The Bakhtiari inhabit the central Zagros Mountains of Iran. The Bakhtiari are traditionally nomadic pastoralists who make their winter encampments in the low...

The Anuak live in a region straddling the border of the southern Sudan and Ethiopia. The Anuak language is most closely related to Shilluk. Together, the two languages comprise a subfamily within the larger classification of Nilotic....

The Afar occupy an area of Djibouti and northeastern Ethiopia, sometimes called the Afar Triangle. There is a long history of hostility between the Afar and the surrounding groups; the Afar are often considered fierce and warlike. The...

The area known as Nuristan is located at the southern end of the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan. There are limited amounts of arable land in the Hindu Kush, but there are abundant amounts of pastureland well suited for...

Goats eating brush.

An image of "Study of a Goat's Deformed Hoof", created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1563 (Watercolour and gouache).

An image of "The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun", created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1615 (Carrara marble, height 44 cm).

An image of "Tobit's Wife with the Goat", created by Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn in 1645 (Oil on mahogany panel, 20 x 27 cm).

An image of "Landscape with Two Cows and a Goat", created by Paulus Potter in 1652 (Oil on panel, 31 x 35 cm).

An image of "Cattle and Goats in a Meadow", created by Adriaen Van De Velde in 1658 (Oil on canvas, 36 x 46 cm).