Goats display audience dependent human directed gazing behaviour in a problem solving task

Goats have the capacity to communicate with people like other domesticated animals, such as dogs and horses, according to scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The footage here shows the team from QMUL’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences training goats to remove a lid from a box to receive a reward. In the final test, they make the reward inaccessible and recorded the goat’s reaction towards the experimenters, who were either facing the goats or had their backs to them. The scie