A wild goat species (Capra aegagrus) native to the mountains of the Middle East and Central Asia, also called the bezoar goat; an ancestor of domestic goats.
From Greek 'aigagros' (wild goat), an ancient naturalist's term for this specific species. The word was preserved through Latin scientific nomenclature and remains the formal taxonomic name for this animal.
The bezoar goat (aegagrus) is probably the actual ancestor of all domestic goats we know today—they're living links to how humans domesticated wild animals over 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent!
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