Goats on a Wall

Friday, November 8, 2013

Head Butt Lesson #1: Measuring the Opponent

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Is Satan A Goat?

Satan Is a Goat

Why is Satan often represented as a goat? In the Bible, he’s never described with horns, hoofed feet and beard. Nor in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Nor Dante’s Inferno. Why? Blame it on the Knights Templar. Legend has it that the Templars had initiation rituals, which weren’t so helpful when they were accused of being homosexuals, heretics, and idolaters and burned at the stake by King Philip the Fair of France in the 1300s. In order to show their loyalty to fellow brothers, they reportedly had to kiss each others’ asses. In order to display courage, they had to spit on the crucifix and pray that God doesn’t strike them down right there. And they were supposedly trained to resist torture, in case the Saracens captured them during the Crusades, and force them to deny Christ and worship a pagan deity in the form of a goat. Under torture, some Templars apparently “confessed” to kissing the head of a dead goat and worshipping the god of the Muslims, calling out the name Muhammad—or Mahomet, which was corrupted to Baphomet. Baphomet was revived in the 19^th century by occult figures like Eliphas Levi and Aleister Crowley as a Satanic deity. Those horizontal pupils helped, too.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Weird Facts About Goats

They Have Accents

Goats have accents? Of course, leave it to the Brits to find out if goats from England sound sexier. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have found that goats’ accents change as they grow older and move into different groups. The findings contradict claims that most mammals' voices are entirely genetic. Previously only humans, elephants, dolphins, and a few other mammals were thought to be able to pick up accents.

They Stand On Cows

If you haven’t heard the 2007 Radiolab episode about a goat standing on a cow on the side of the road, do it now. The tale gets stranger and stranger as it evolves into somewhat of a detective story. Apparently, goats do stand on cows, and practically everything else, too, including on people. Goats, after all, originated from the Zagros Mountains in Anatolia, where they had to climb rocks and cliffs, and they can hold their balance in the most precarious places, including trees.

They Have Weird Rectangular Pupils

Goats’ eyes have horizontal slits, which give them deep peripheral vision and allow them to monitor predators in a broad area. Horses, cows, and other hoofed animals have similar pupils, but goats’ irises are usually pale, so they show up more prominently, and are more able to scare people

Jeddidiah Island, British Columbia

Jedediah Island is a provincial marine park, located between Lasqueti and Texada Islands in the Sabine Channel of the Strait of Georgia, in British Columbia, Canada.

These goats were brought over by Spanish Explorers in the 18th Century and dropped off on the island as a potential food source for the return journey home.

An ageing, strawberry-coloured horse and a herd of feral sheep and goats graze in the fields that surround a farmhouse standing above the shoreline at Home Bay. The horse was brought to Jedediah in the 1980s and stayed on after the owners sold out. (Unfortunately, William the horse passed away peacefully last year). The weathered house at Home Bay is boarded up now, as are all the outbuildings, but there is still a definite feeling of a working homestead about the place. A shed houses antique farm equipment beside an orchard of gnarled trees that continue to blossom. The scene is an unusual one to find in a provincial park, and reminiscent of Ruckle Provincial Park at the south end of Saltspring Island, site of one of British Columbia's first family farms. Jedediah Island Provincial Marine Park is located in the Strait of Georgia, between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Goats Screaming Like Humans

Published on Mar 3, 2013

The original "Goats Yelling Like Humans" video has been featured on every major website on the internet, made it on to Jimmy Kimmel and sparked the new music trend of goats yelling in music videos. "Goats Yelling Like Humans" just crossed the 10 million view mark so to celebrate we pulled together a sequel.