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A goatherd or a goatherder is a person who herds goats as a vocational activity. Similar to a fisherman
Fisherman

A fisherman or fisher is someone who gathers shellfish, or captures fish and other animals from a body of water. Worldwide, there are about 38 million Commercial fishing and Artisan fishing fishermen and fish farmers....
 who catches fish for a living, the drover here herds goats. Goatherds are popular in countries where goat populations are significamt; for instance, in Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 and South Asia
South Asia

South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east....
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A goatherd or a goatherder is a person who herds goats as a vocational activity. Similar to a fisherman
Fisherman

A fisherman or fisher is someone who gathers shellfish, or captures fish and other animals from a body of water. Worldwide, there are about 38 million Commercial fishing and Artisan fishing fishermen and fish farmers....
 who catches fish for a living, the drover here herds goats. Goatherds are popular in countries where goat populations are significamt; for instance, in Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 and South Asia
South Asia

South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east....
. Goats are typically bred as dairy animals, or for their meat.

Herding a goat is much harder than herding sheep
Sheep

#REDIRECT Domestic sheep...
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Fictional goatherds include Peter from Johanna Spyri's
Johanna Spyri

Johanna Spyri was an author of children's stories, and is best known for Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graub?nden, the setting she later would use in her novels....
 Heidi
Heidi

Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning , usually abbreviated Heidi, is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps....
, and the song "The Lonely Goatherd
The Lonely Goatherd

"The Lonely Goatherd" is a show tune from the musical The Sound Of Music that makes use of yodeling.This song tells the whimsical story of a goatherd whose yodeling is heard from far off and by passers-by, until he falls in love with a girl who wears a pale-pink coat, with her mother joining in the yodelling....
" from The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
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The word capriculturist, which is derived from Latin, began to appear with more frequency in the late 1940s.

See also

  • Flock of Goats