Myotonic Goat Essay

The fainting goat or Myotonic goat (Ovis aries) belongs to the class is Mammalia. The fainting goat does not actually faint. Its skeletal muscles contract when hearingloud noise or anything that startles them. The fainting goat is a good domestic animal. Function and structure are important parts of a vertebrates body, the structure are parts of the body that have a specific purpose, and their function are the scientific purposes to a vertebrates body. The fainting goat has an interesting structure and function as they are called fainting goats but they do not actually faint. They actually have muscles called the skeletal muscles that contract when they are startled which causes them to fall, but when they are not contracted the muscles help move and support the goat. Another structure of the Myotonic goat is their udder, which produces milk for their young and humans also use the milk to make products. One more example is their jaw as it helps digest food, and it will get stronger as they because they are eating chewy grass all day.
Fainting goats have a lot of biotic factors.
Biotic means relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations. There are a lot of biotic factors that affect the Myotonic goat here are a few. The first one is grass because it is their main food source and if they did not have it lots of Fainting goats would die and struggle looking for another food source. The second one would have to be humans, the humans use Fainting goats for commercial consumption this affects the goats survival as the humans protect them and breed them a lot. The third biotic factor are coyotes, coyotes are a main factor because they eat Myotonic goats when they get past the human protection or if one gets
loose.
Abiotic factors are the non-living things that interact with a living thing all the time. There are a lot of abiotic factors but I am going to share three. The first one is water, now it is provided by humans but without it the Myotonic goats would die. Now the second is air, specifically oxygen because without it they could not breathe and they would die but plants would die to because they need the co2 to breathe and produce oxygen. The third one is sound input, because If the goat hears a loud noise that startles them there muscles will contract and cause them to fall and if it is a predator the goat will probably die because it can not move. I learned alot about this animal on how it is called the fainting goat but does not actually faint. I hope I have improved your knowledge on the Myotonic or Fainting goat.

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