Who knew? Why goats yell like humans
Posted by staff / March 8, 2013
Forrest Wickman at Slate begins his article in a way more compelling fashion than I could begin mine and so I’ll quote it directly:
If you’re among the millions who have spent a significant portion of the past month watching videos of goats yelling like humans, you may have wondered: Why do goats yell like that? Are they distressed? Do they yell for any particular reason? Are they trying to tell us something?
We asked the goat experts. The first thing we learned is that the goat experts are not amused. “Maybe for some it is entertaining,” Dr. An Peischel of Tennesse State University told me. “I am a goat producer and don’t consider it entertainment at all.”
Turns out that goats yell for all the reasons you’d expect them to: calling their young, signalling danger or pain, wanting to be fed, etc. And experts disagree that they all sound human saying that goats have individual voices.
Dr. Jean-Marie Luginbuhl of North Carolina State, a specialist in meat goats, agreed. “In my experience with goats, it does not take much for them to scream bloody murder, as if you are torturing them, when simply handling them.”
For more info see: Slate.
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A said this was the aright article for me to show my mom
B said it skimped on the facts but it cleared up some confusion, moms will enjoy.
C said the only look we had at the goats was 2 at the very top, if friend of A’s mother likes pictures with her text she’ll have to look elseware, just giving you a heads up(;