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)

[edit] Template

I think, we should included a template for the Goat Antelopes. User:4444hhhh

[edit] Images

Both images on the page are of the same species, namely, the Barbary Sheep, and look rather similar. Since this page refers to a group, I've replaced the second image with one of a different species within that group. Anaxial (talk) 14:38, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Goat-antelope

Is there a reference for the term "goat antelope"? I find it confusing as two words. Is it widely established elsewhere? I'd never heard it, and most Google hits seem to be Wikipedia itself (or derivatives) – technical papers seem to use "caprid" instead. It seems to me that it would be clearer to use it hyphenated: "goat-antelope". To me this makes it more obvious that we are talking about a single group of animals, without the risk of confusion with either goats as such, or antelopes proper. This particularly applies in sentences with other names in them, where you end up having to puzzle out a series of apparently equal animal names: "the Rocky Mountain goat is a goat antelope", "the Barbary sheep is a goat antelope", "the Tibetan antelope is not a goat antelope", "the family Bovidae includes goat antelopes, antelopes and cattle". To anyone unfamiliar with the term, the eye reads along as far as the "goat" – but then the loose "antelope" has to be explained. (Is it meant to be there, or is it an editing mistake?) I think the hyphen would make each of these examples clearer, making it obvious that the term is a compound noun – and it would also be more in keeping with normal English usage.--Richard New Forest (talk) 11:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)