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Goats can tell the difference between a happy-sounding human voice and an angry-sounding one, according to research co-led by Professor Alan McElligott, an expert in animal behavior and welfare at ...

Farmers raise millions of goats. But little has been known about how to tell if a goat is doing OK — until now. A new study reveals the signs of... Goats are having a moment, and we're not just saying ...

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Goats either prefer humans that sport a grin or make an effort to avoid those with a grimace, a new study shows. Judy van der Velden/Flickr You may not be able to tell when they’re busy chomping down ...

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This study offers the first evidence that goats can discriminate between cues expressed in the human voice, namely, emotional valence. Credit: Dr Marianne Mason This study offers the first evidence ...

Don’t get bleat — we mean bleak — around a goat. Goats, just like dogs, prefer smiling friends over scowling jerks, according to a new study. Researchers in the UK borrowed goats from a local ...

Goats react when the tone of human voices change, experiments show READ MORE: Goats can understand human gestures like pointing Their tendency to eat just about anything they can find may have given ...

Alan McElligott, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Roehampton in the UK, continues to be impressed by goats. Since he started studying the charismatic ungulates a decade ago, he’s ...

Goats can tell the difference between a happy-sounding human voice and an angry-sounding one, according to researchers. A new study reveals that goats may have developed a sensitivity to our vocal ...