A herd of 500 goats helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from recent California wildfires. Reagan was President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. The goats ate the grass, creating a barrier against the advancing fire. This “flame-free” area gave firefighters more time to react to fires. Goat farming is a way […]
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Study indicates that goats recognize happy people
Research shows that it’s not just pets that perceive human emotions and can interact with other species Goats can differentiate human facial expressions Goats know how to differentiate between different human facial expressions and prefer to interact with people who are happy, according to a study by Queen Mary University in London that was published […]
Goat Species: Behavior and Curiosities
Belonging to the bovine family, with a subfamily of goats, goats are ruminant mammals that have some wild animals in their lineage, such as wild goats, the markhor and the ibex. We also have several breeds of domestic goats, which are nothing more and nothing less than a subspecies of wild goats. Goats are animals […]
Scientists claim that goats are as smart and affectionate as dogs
A new study published in the journal Biology Letters claims that goats are as smart and affectionate as dogs. The internet already knew this: they ended up winning over everyone with cute gifs of their puppies and funny mash ups of their sounds with pop diva songs. Research by a team from the School of […]
Goat, its origins and its thousand uses
Usually, when you hear about goats, one of the first things you think about is funny situations, jokes, etc. The very term “goat” already leads us to think of comic circumstances. “Plague goat”, “disease goat”, “male goat”, etc. they always invoke games in other regions of the country than the Northeast. There, in the Northeast, […]
