Talk:Goat antelope
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Nice article; this is a group that badly needed sorting out (I thought they were marsupials...O the shame) jimfbleak 11:26 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Thanks Jim. Actually, you can blame Stan Shebs. He made a comment about capitalising "Sheep" and "Goat" and that made me wonder how many different sheep and goats there are, and if they ought to be capitalised or not, so I cruised over here, saw that there wasn't anything yet ... and that was about 12 hours ago! That's what I love about this place: yesterday I knew that you usually shear sheep and milk goats but sometimes the other way around, and that they had a number of wild relatives but not much more than that. OK, three-quarters of what I learn here falls out the other ear a day or two later, but some of it has to stick. Tannin
As long as it sticks long enough for you to write it up in an article, then that's long enough! ^_^ -- Toby Bartels 10:56 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)
When I typed in "mountain goat," it came to this page. While that is not necessarily wrong, I think that, since the name "mountain goat" tends to refer specifically to the Rocky Mountain Goat, I think it would be preferable to redirect "mountain goat" to that page. -- Funnyhat 19:28, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I agree. I'm switching the redirect so it points there. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 19:44, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Panthalopinae
There ought to be an explanation and reference for this. The genus Pantholops is usually spelled with an o and placed in the subfamily Antilopinae. Who spells it with an a and who proposes to move it to its own subfamily? Gdr 19:54, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
