goat

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These includes fortifying homes against wildfires, replanting fire-ravaged forests and thinning out vegetation with prescribed burns, goat grazing and manual thinning with heavy machinery to reduce the intensity of potential fires.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

As a result, "a sheep or goat that was sold before the war for around 1,000 shekels is now priced between 11,000 and 15,000 shekels," Asaliya said.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

The hunters in Iran’s Zagros mountains who protected and managed wild ibexes, for example, had no idea that their actions would lead to the domestication of the goat.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

In 2024, the street artist created an animal trail around the capital with pieces featuring a goat, elephants, a gorilla, monkeys, piranhas, a rhino and pelicans among other animals.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Calling our goat Milk and our donkey Nothing was strange enough, but giving an animal a name you would give a human was unheard of.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff