Goats were also the first species humans domesticated, about 10,000 years ago, giving them a head start. “It’s exciting research,” Kiddie agrees. A study published in the journal Biological Letters gave goats a task that involved taking the lid off a box to receive a reward. When they set the task difficulty to “impossible”’, the researchers’ goats gazed imploringly at nearby humans, in the same way that dogs do. They’ve been keeping awfully quiet about it, but fresh data from Queen Mary, University Of London suggests that goats are on a similar domestication trajectory to dogs.

Source: The Guardian July 06, 2016 14:48 UTC