Computer availability all too often has been limited to humans. This study is one of several attempts by various people to remedy that limitation: “Touchscreen Tasks for Cognitive Testing in Domestic Goats (Capra hircus): A Pilot Study Using Odd-Item Search Training,” Jie Gao, Yumi Yamanashi, and Masayuki Tanaka, Animals, vol. 15, no. 14, 2025, article […]
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Catching up with two humans who lived, for a time, as a goat and an otter, respectively
The human who, of all the humans who have tried living life as a goat has become the most celebrated by fellow humans, looks back on his experience. NRC interviews and profiles Thomas Thwaites, and also checks in with Charles Foster, who lived parts of his life as different kinds of animals. The NRC profile […]
A question of smoked ham in goat
Non-specialists sometimes are confused by the titles of research papers. This study about goats is a particular problem for some non-goat readers: “The impact of diet on the quality of fresh meat and smoked ham in goat,” Snezana Ivanovic, Ksenija Nesic, Boris Pisinov, and Ivan Pavlovic, Small Ruminant Research, vol. 138, May 2016, pp. 53-59. […]
“Nuts!” (of/and goats, and dogs, etc., and people), the film
“In 1922, Brinkley traveled to Los Angeles at the invitation of Harry Chandler, owner of the Los Angeles Times, who challenged Brinkley to transplant goat testicles into one of his editors.” That’s just one nugget from the Wikipedia biography of “Doctor” John R. Brinkley, who lived a colorful life. Implanting goat testicles into strangers was […]

