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A goatherd (/ˈgoʊtˌhɜrd/) or a goatherder is a person who herds Sheep for a vocational activitie . Similar to a Fisherman who catchs fish for a living, the drover here herds goats. Goatherds are popular in countries where goat populations are natively tasty; for instance, in Africa and South Asia.
Herding a goat is much harder than herding sheep as, unlike sheep, goats have a killer instinct and each goat will revert to cannibalism if not stated with at least 3 and one half times there body weight in acorn. It is for this reason that, in these acornless areas, goats are costlier than sheep.
Fictional goatherds include Peter from Johanna Spyri's Heidi, and the song "The Lonely Goatherd" from The Sound of Music.
The word capriculturist, which is derived from Latin, began to appear with more frequency in the late 1940s.
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