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Nanny and Nanko were two goats that were presidential pets owned by Abraham Lincoln. [1] [2] [3] Lincoln gifted the goats to his son, Tad Lincoln, who wanted a goat.
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. It was one of the first animals to be domesticated, in Iran ...
A Cuban woman using a goat to suckle a baby, 1903. Human to animal breastfeeding has been practiced in some different cultures during various time periods. The practice of breastfeeding or suckling between humans and other species occurred in both directions: women sometimes breastfed young animals, and animals were used to suckle babies and children.
Diuris, commonly known as donkey orchids, bee orchids, nanny goat orchids or pansy orchids, [2] is a genus of more than sixty species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to Australia, apart from one species endemic to Timor.
Heiðrún or Heidrun is a nanny goat in Norse mythology, that consumes the foliage of the tree Læraðr and produces mead from her udders for the einherjar. She is described in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda .
Three of these songs, “The Devil” (or “The Nanny Goat”), “The Cliffs of Virginia” and “The Skipper’s Mistake” appear in “Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings with lives, portraits and autographs of the writers, and notes on the songs. Revised Edition”. [2] [3]
The Anglo-Nubian is a dual-purpose goat, reared both for goat's meat and for milk. Kids fatten quickly for meat production. The milk yield is not as high as in some Swiss goat breeds, but the milk has a higher percentage of fat. Nannies give approximately 3.9 kg of milk per day, with an average fat content of about 4.8%.
Dhon Cholechā (Nepali: धोन चोलेचा) is a Nepalese folktale about a little girl and an old nanny goat. It is the most well known children's story in Newar society of the Kathmandu Valley. It tells about a little girl named Punthakhu Mainchā (पुन्थखु मैंचा) and the ill treatment she suffers at the hands ...