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The '''fainting goat''' or '''myotonic goat''' is an American [[list of goat breeds|breed]] of [[goat]]. It is characterised by [[myotonia congenita]], a hereditary condition that may cause it to stiffen or fall over when excited or startled.{{r|cabi|page=396}}[Martin, A. F., Bryant, S. H., & Mandel, F. (1984). Isomyosin distribution in skeletal muscles of normal and myotonic goats. Muscle & Nerve, 7(2), 152–160. {{doi|10.1002/mus.880070212}}][{{Cite web|title=Why do goats faint and scream?|url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-do-goats-faint-and-scream.html|access-date=2021-08-28|website=www.nhm.ac.uk|language=en}}] It may also be known as the Tennessee fainting goat, falling goat, stiff-legged goat or nervous goat, or as the Tennessee wooden-leg goat.{{r|sandy|page=28}}[{{Cite journal|last=Bryant|first=S. H.|date=1979|title=Myotonia in the Goat|journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences|volume=317|issue=1|pages=314–325|doi=10.1111/j.1749-6632.1979.tb56540.x|pmid=289314|bibcode=1979NYASA.317..314B|s2cid=27444911|issn=1749-6632}}] Four goats of this type were brought to [[Tennessee]] in the 1880s.[{{Cite journal|last=Lush|first=Jay L.|date=1930-06-01|url=https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/21/6/243/815306|journal=Journal of Heredity|language=en|volume=21|issue=6|pages=243–247|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a103334|issn=0022-1503|title=" Nervous " Goats|url-access=subscription}}] |
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The '''fainting goat''' or '''myotonic goat''' is an American [[list of goat breeds|breed]] of [[goat]]. It may also be known as the Tennessee fainting goat, falling goat, stiff-legged goat or nervous goat, or as the Tennessee wooden-leg goat.{{r|sandy|page=28}}[{{Cite journal|last=Bryant|first=S. H.|date=1979|title=Myotonia in the Goat|journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences|volume=317|issue=1|pages=314–325|doi=10.1111/j.1749-6632.1979.tb56540.x|pmid=289314|bibcode=1979NYASA.317..314B|s2cid=27444911|issn=1749-6632}}] The fainting goat is characterized by [[myotonia congenita]], a hereditary condition that may cause it to stiffen or fall over when excited or startled.{{r|cabi|page=396}}[Martin, A. F., Bryant, S. H., & Mandel, F. (1984). Isomyosin distribution in skeletal muscles of normal and myotonic goats. Muscle & Nerve, 7(2), 152–160. {{doi|10.1002/mus.880070212}}][{{Cite web|title=Why do goats faint and scream?|url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-do-goats-faint-and-scream.html|access-date=2021-08-28|website=www.nhm.ac.uk|language=en}}] Four goats of this type were first brought to [[Tennessee]] in the 1880s.[{{Cite journal|last=Lush|first=Jay L.|date=1930-06-01|url=https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/21/6/243/815306|journal=Journal of Heredity|language=en|volume=21|issue=6|pages=243–247|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a103334|issn=0022-1503|title=" Nervous " Goats|url-access=subscription}}] |
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