The photographer thought it was a goat. The photo editor thought it was a goat. Sure looked like a goat to the author of this post. It turns out to be a sheep, in Dakar, Senegal.

While both hail from the subfamily Caprinae, sheep and goats diverge at the genus level and arrive as distinct species. Sheep (Ovis aries) have 54 chromosomes; goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) have 60.

Goats and sheep may seem similar, especially from afar, but these two animals are quite different. Despite being from the same family, sheep and goats have different eating habits, natures, and ...

Domestic goats and sheep transmit respiratory disease and fatal pneumonia in bighorn sheep, shown by evidence gathered in the Rocky Mountain Region by the US Department of Agriculture in 2008.

Sheep and goats are closely related, both having been domesticated and used by humans for fiber, meat and milk for millennia. But they aren’t similar in all ways. One possible difference, newly ...