A Joat is a strange animal of Motta Fa Potta Fa Pell from the book If I Ran the Zoo. Their feet are like cows but have squirrel-skin coat and they sit down like dogs but they have voices like goats but they can't sing the very high notes ever if they tried cause it sounds awful as you will hear in the Dr Seuss's Video Classics version of this book.
A surprised Joat in Motta Fa Potta Fa Pell