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Meet the goat
Goats solve puzzle boxes, remember the solution nearly a year later, and look to humans for help when they get stuck.
🏡 Rocky mountains and scrubland; wild goats are astonishing climbers.🍽️ Leaves, shrubs, bark and grass. They're browsers, not lawnmowers.⏳ 15–18 years.
Friends and family
Goats prefer friends who bleat like them — they even have regional accents.
Mother goats hide their newborn kids in vegetation for the first days of life.
How they talk
Kids and mothers recognise each other's calls, and goats read human facial expressions, preferring happy faces.
How clever are they?
Goats remembered how to open a two-step puzzle box after ten months away from it.
What they feel
Goats have accents that change as they move between groups — a sign of social learning.
Superpower: Cliff climber
Split hooves with soft grippy pads let goats stand on ledges the width of your hand.
🤓 Did you know?
- Goats prefer looking at happy human faces over angry ones.
- Goats develop regional accents within their groups.
- Goats remember puzzle solutions for at least ten months.
Living alongside people
Goats were among the first animals humans farmed, around 10,000 years ago.