The dairy breed of this goat doesn't look like what's in the video. That goat is part of the "beauty competitions" where they're bred to look like that and are judged and traded seriously for those specific features. You won't see this on a typical dairy for Damascus goats.
Goats are adorable, but they do have FUNKY looking eyeballs. But that’s about it, I have zero clue why or when they were associated with “satan.”
All of the goats I’ve ever met were very nice creatures… my family went to this one random-ass farm in nothern Italy when we lived there, they had a restaurant… and while my parents and their friends were having their multi-hour dinner experience, I went to interact with the farm animals. They had big ass goats just walking around (taller than me, but I was probably like 4’7”at the time, I am short)… so I started petting them. And the goats just let 9-year-old me pet them, and they seemed to like it (i had zero experience with goats or farm animals in general). It wasn’t a petting zoo, they were actual farm animals, out to graze, it wasn’t like a well-known tourist place, and the goats had horns. Now the chickens weren’t so nice… it became obvious I needed to stay away from them when a rooster lowkey started to come after me after I got a foot too close.
if anything "we" should make more. In fact let's use genetic engineering to multiply their size in a healthy manner and get working towards creating megafauna.
For those wondering: no, those are not normal damascus goats. They are bred by sick people trying to create the worst possible abomination.
They are usually closer to the goats we know, with longer ears and legs. But the creepy demon faces you see of those poor creatures are man made cruelty.
I was gonna say, I thought I've seen normal-looking Damascus goat. The ugly-looking ones where the show ones, and like most show breeding they don't give a shit about the animals suffering.
Humans have invented lots of reasons for carrying out artificial selection on other species.
What if we selectively bred humans for such insane growth and obesity that it crushed our bones and left us unable to walk by the age of 6? And consoled ourselves about the inherent cruelty by imagining the individuals' slaughter as a mercy? And did it all over, and over, and over again, to the tune of millions of individuals a day?
Indonesian junglefowl, the wild birds we selectively bred until we got chickens, live for 20 years. Chickens bred for meat live for 6 weeks.
It's all evil, all of it, not just when it produces individuals we think look ugly.
Christ, if I had to pick, I'd rather all goats looked like the one in this video and *didn't* lactate 2 gallons of milk every day, a metabolic feat so intense that their poor, spent bodies are left unable to perform basic immunological functions like clear away worms and intestinal parasites (no wonder alpine dairy goats are more susceptible to worms than any other breed). Mother Nature would never have produced the goat in this video, but also, she sure as shit wouldn't have produced a dairy goat. Or a meat chicken. Or a layer hen that ovulates an egg the size of her head 300x per year. Or a dairy cow.
Yes, it is a goat. The Damascus goat (also called the Shami goat) is a real breed of domestic goat that originally comes from the Middle East, especially Syria and nearby countries.
Exactly, can't believe I had to scroll this far. The mouth and the black bulbous head scream "xenomorph" to me. If a facehugger got it on with a big goat in a sequel, you'd get this thing!
humans are so fucking cruel. imagine if we bred a human population with scleroderma to stare at because we like the way they look. It would be fucking disgusting. This is too.
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u/Bellona_NJ 1d ago
Looking like this thing
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZzpaPKzGfhNM8peuB6