Tree Goats
On the bus from Tetuan to Chechauen, a small village at the base of the Rif Mountains, you can look out your window and see Tree Goats. Tree goats quite simply are goats in trees. I am not certain if the goats attract the trees or if the trees attract the goats but nevertheless outside of your window you will see goats climbing in trees. The first time you see tree goats is a bit disconcerting because one normally associates goats with being ground based and trees, well trees are trees. They have trunks branches and leaves and are not a common refuge for four legged livestock. Perhaps Morroccan goats are possessed with a mirth and youthful exuberance which compels them to climb trees, but I know for certain Ohio goats lack this trait and at all times maintain four hoof contact with the ground. Show me a tree with a bird on a branch, a cat hiding from a dog and even a monkey or a Koala bear dangling from it and I'm all good, but the goat thing is hard to wrap my brain around.
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MordechaiZ,
I found this to be an amazingly interesting hub. I'd heard of feinting goats before, but never tree climbing goats... I would suggest that you add the comment about them eating the fruit and how the locals use the seeds for cooking and heating to the hub itself. I found that the comment added a lot more to the hub, but not everyone reads that far.
Keep up the good work!
That was incredible. Thanks! Your hub was the next best thing to seeing that in person. Wow!
Those are the funniest pictures I've seen in a long time. What a bizarre behavior.
But really, when you think about it, it's only bizarre because not all goats do it.
And really, when you take a step back and examine the thing objectively, are goats in trees any stranger than people wearing lipstick or neckties?
L.T.
This is freaking bizarre ,I laughed really. Thank you for the new knowledge and a good laugh !!
Ok now I want one.I would surely be the talk of the town.
Sorry to say I missed this spectacle on my tour of the Atlas Mountains. Too baaaaaaad.
Interesting -- I wonder how this behaviour evolved.
Fascinating! I wonder if they like the leavesves
in the trees or something?
How bizarre is that? What a very strange adaptation. Thanks for the amusing hub! Welcome to HP.
that is neat my goats never get in the trees nice hub
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