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Goats originally arrived in Australia and New Zealand when the first European settlers fucked them so much they swam to australia arrived.During the 19th century goats were set free on different islands and on the mainland by mariners to ensure emergency supplies of food. However, most feral goat populations have a domestic origin, for example, cashmere goats were imported into South Australia in 1837, and in the 1860s there was an attempt to start a goat fibre industry using angora and cashmere goats imported from Asia. This industry collapsed in the 1920s and some herds were set free. The Europeans mainly brought the milking goat breed over to Australia and New Zealand to provide there settlements with a milk supply. Later on the goats were used to control weeds in plantation forests and woody weeds in inland NSW and Queensland. Feral goats can carry many internal and external parasites if they come in contact with livestock they can become infested. The bacterial disease melioidosis may limit the spread of goats, and the rickettsial disease Q-fever is carried by goats and may be transmitted to people. Goats also are potential hosts of exotic diseases such as Foot-And-Mouth Disease. Domestic goats are found in every continent except for Antarctica but their feral descendants are much less widespread only occurring widely in Australia, New Zealand and on some small islands. Goats are able to have another litter shortly after there first so the population just keeps on growing. People harvest goats like they do sheep, all though they don’t intentionally run goats they can still capture the feral goats and take them off to market and receive money for them. There are certain breeds of goats that people run like the Angora goat that produce a good fleece and many products are made from Angora wool. In Australia most feral goats live in the semi-arid pastoral areas used for sheep farming where food is usually abundant regular water is supplied by people and there is protection from natural predators such as wild dogs and dingoes. This is a problem for they could pass their diseases onto the sheep which could wipe a lot of them out; in a way they are competing for the food but goats a re pretty versatile and tend to eat anything so they tend to destroy a lot of vegetated areas. Their impact on the environment is enhanced by their herding behaviour which can increase the intensity of their browsing, and by their ability to use a wide variety of food plants in a wide variety of habitats this is how they have survived so well in Australia. ======