goats are ingenious at "ornery" and related fields.
a herd of goats produces a constant clatter of horns and chatter that sounds like a cocktail party. maybe more of a pre-school playground war. yeah, that's closer to the spirit of it.
We have a blind goat who is part of our dog pack. She was never with a herd, but she knows she is pack, and that makes it OK enough. She'll take great delight in stomping and being pointy at the dogs over the food dish when she's not hungry and knows she'll get put outside; just because "thats what we do." It means something different in goat language.
The hounds tolerate her as the silly pointy puppy who talks funny.
There's absolutely politics and dialog and emotions in that kind of interplay; but all i can see is that it would be very hard to classify and quantify into real data.
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We have a blind goat who is part of our dog pack. She was never with a herd, but she knows she is pack, and that makes it OK enough. She'll take great delight in stomping and being pointy at the dogs over the food dish when she's not hungry and knows she'll get put outside; just because "thats what we do." It means something different in goat language.
The hounds tolerate her as the silly pointy puppy who talks funny.
There's absolutely politics and dialog and emotions in that kind of interplay; but all i can see is that it would be very hard to classify and quantify into real data.