Use rocky areas for cover. Herds may consist of all males, mixed sex and age groups, or females and young. Members of a herd usually scattered over home range at any particular time as single individuals, or in small groups. Herds usually do not overlap. Home range is not defended.
Males fight for access to estrous females.
Dominant males may copulate with several females. At times, so many males attempt to mate with 1 female that no single male is able to retain control of mating, and a seemingly chaotic interaction results. Gestation period 147-155 days, averaging about 151 days. One to 3 precocial young are born, averaging 2. Goats can be highly destructive to natural vegetation, and have contributed to erosion, the spread of deserts, and the disappearance of wildlife in Middle East and Mediterranean areas, Hawaiian Islands, and other island locations.