Here's Looking at You Kid - The Truth about goats' eyes
by Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Title
Here's Looking at You Kid - The Truth about goats' eyes
Artist
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography,
Description
Goats! All their yelling and fainting! Whassup with that? Why do people suddenly like goat yoga?? And how did goats get those creepy horizontal slits in their pupils? In a study published August 2015 in Science Advances, researchers from UC Berkeley and Durham University examined the pupil shapes of goats and of 213 other land species for patterns. The ecological niche as either hunter or the hunted is a key predictor of how eyes will be shaped. Lead author Martin Banks of UC said grazing animals rotate their eyes when they bow their heads to graze, thus always keeping their eye slits nearly parallel to the ground no matter the position of their heads. They can rotate more than 50 degrees per eye, the researchers say, which is 10 times that of the human eye, so that grazers can maintain a preys'-eye-view of the world even while eating. So heres looking out for predators, kid! Of course you knew that a baby Capra aegagrus hircus is called a kid! This old goat lives next to a marine salvage yard in Florida. Artiodactyls, even-toed (cloven-hooved) ungulates, include antelopes, camels, cows, deer, goats, pigs, and sheep. These animals walk on two enlarged toes. What an animal! Share this with a kid!
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April 25th, 2016
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Comments (23)
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful image is being featured in 500 Views Share Group & Shared:-)
Debby Pueschel
Oh my gosh Barbie! This eye is awesome. AND your information is incredible. Now I know why they are so "aggressive". Love it. FL
Kathy Kelly
Fantastic capture Barbie. I love the detail in the coat and eye. I also learned more about goats! L/F
Carol Lynn Coronios
Had to click - to make sure that you had captured all possibilities (reflection). Great info on eyes - I love reading the descriptions of work - adds so much, I feel. Congratulations on your features! Liked
Barbie Corbett-Newmin replied:
Thanks for checking up on me, Carol! lol. Yep, there I am in the eyeball behind the fence and the camera!
Jim Williams
What an icy stare. Barbie, thank you for submitting your goat gotten featured eyeball to WHAT Interrobang. LF
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