literature. As molecular analyses demonstrate, the kri-kri is not, as previously thought, a distinct subspecies of wild goat. Rather, it is a feral domestic goat, derived from the first stocks of goats domesticated in the Levant and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean around 8000-7500 BCE. Therefore, it represents a nearly ten-thousand-year-old "snapshot" of the first domestication of goats. See also Sapientza Feral goats European mouflon Auckland Island Pig, redomesticated pig population Campbell Island cattle, exterminated feral cattle population Chillingham Cattle and White Park, culturally significant (semi-)feral cattle populations References Bar-Gal, G. K. et al. (2002): Genetic evidence for the origin of the agrimi goat (Capra aegagrus cretica). Journal of Zoology 256:369-377. DOI:10.1017/S0952836902000407 Manceau, V. et al. (1999): Systematics of the genus Capra inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 13:504-510 Goats Feral goats Capra (genus) Goat breeds Mammals of Europe Endemic fauna of Crete Subspecies