Pygmy Goat

American Pygmy

The American Pygmy is an American breed of achondroplastic (dwarf) goat. It is small, compact and stockily built. Like the Nigerian Dwarf, it derives from the West African Dwarf group of breeds of West Africa. Between 1930 and 1960, animals of this type were imported to the United States for use either as zoo animals or for research; some were later kept and bred as companion animals and established as a breed in 1975.

Pygmy peoples

In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm tall.

Goat

The goat or domestic goat is a species of goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae and is closely related to the sheep. It was one of the first animals to be domesticated, in Iran around 10,000 years ago.

pygmy

Noun

1. A member of various legendary races of dwarfs, or supernatural peoples of diminutive stature.
2. A member of one of various tribal peoples of the Congo Basin in equatorial Africa, notable for their very short stature.

Adjective

1. Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people.
2. Unusually short or small for its kind, especially in the names of animals and plants.

goat

Noun

1. Any ruminant of the genus Capra.

Verb

1. To allow goats to feed on.
2. To scapegoat.