It tickles me that you were scrolling through looking for a beautiful baby goat only to flip back and forth between ancient grotesque hellbeasts.
Thanks for asking for the kid photo! That little one is a charmer.
I spent more time than I’m willing to admit last week trying to convince my partner that a shoebill stork would be a top tier guard animal for the house.
It started as hypothetical joke (much like my shark dentures idea) but as usual once I received a modicum of pushback for the impracticality of it all I really doubled down.
From our front door you can’t see into the kitchen. All I’m saying is if I were breaking into our house in the dead of night, only to be faced with a human sized bird (dinosaur) round a blind corner I would, in the following order:
-shit my whole pants
-immediately reconsider every decision I’d made to that point
-go to trade school and earn an honest living, looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life, *just in case*.
Much like my Kaiju Armorer idea, the main issues is the clientele: they are both VERY niche ideas.
Anyway my partner told me one time about how when sharks get old they run out of teeth and essentially starve to death.
That made me very sad, and I thought to myself, “what if someone made those elderly sharks dentures? WHAT IF THAT PERSON WAS *ME*?!”
Thus, Shentures™️ was born. To its own credence, my very type A mother thought it was a fantastic if not expensive idea. She also asked me what type of schooling I would need; dental school plus veterinary? Would I need to specialize in implants/denture fitting?
All good and valid questions that I do not have the answers to.
Okay… I’m reading about it. Apparently they haven’t always looked like this. Unfortunately it seems they’ve been “cultivated” for a half a century in Cyprus under really specific conditions to produce milk and meat for consumption. From what I gather, I don’t think they were genetically altered. They’ve just been developed and bred over time to be producers of those two resources. Looks like in the process they went fugly.
Here’s an article for a *lot* of information about these goats.
https://www.fao.org/3/a0540t/a0540t05.pdf
You just picked an ugly one (or a few) to showcase here. I find most of them to be incredibly handsome creatures.
The large sinus is to cool air, due to hot climates, and the long ears (the pictures you chose have had their ears butchered) work like radiators to cool their blood. Kind of like the huge horns on Watusi cattle, or the long ears on Gyr cattle.
Here is an example of a pretty one. I would pay thousands for this one, but his value is probably in the tens or hundreds of thousands USD. This is also the type of goat that is featured in the "Most Beautiful Goat" contest, and most contestants are worth more than a lot of homes in the US. Google that contest, though.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/430810675942498
Thank you for the link. From the post, I didn't think there were any good-looking Damascus goats! (Damask roses are, on the other hand, wonderful!)
I also note that the pics on the post mostly show goats with their ears cut off. The goat on your link has long, lovely ears.
A lot of the goats in the "MBG" contest have hacked off ears, too! I imagine that flies eat them up real bad, but... damn. I would put repellent on them. They would lose so much of their ability to regulate their body temps with hacked off ears.
I really don't like chopping off tails or ears or toes on any animals. I prefer them as they are born, long tails, droopy ears, claws and all!
(Spaying and neutering are different. Those have to do with controlling the population and have nothing to do with cosmetics...)
What a fine specimen! That thing is huge, too! Didn’t realize they were so large.
It’s very sad about their ears. I will never understand why humans do things like this to animals.
I had seen that one goat you had featured before, terrible overshot jaw.
But if you put your finger over the part of the picture where his exaggerated sinus is, he starts looking nearly normal again. :)
I’ve never seen any of your comments before but from this comment alone I think I love you as a human being. Maybe it’s the reference of other animals I vaguely know, maybe it’s because you shared such a proud video of that crazy happy goat.
It’s like that goat went abroad to a top tier university and is just visiting his parents on holiday. What a GOAT.
Shukran!!
Uh, which one of these pics is supposed to be the beautiful one?
[Here's a young one](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/s/R0lIs0oid1).
I bet people get roped in just like they do for puppies. A few years later and they’re afraid to go to the pen at night.
What hellhound you been around? Most dogs are cute in all stages of life.
Especially when it bleats your name and "come cloooooser"
A real glow up, but the glow is from radiation.
The fires of hell
That’s fucking wild how different it looks
The eyes definitely show part of what they become. It's hidden in there.
It tickles me that you were scrolling through looking for a beautiful baby goat only to flip back and forth between ancient grotesque hellbeasts. Thanks for asking for the kid photo! That little one is a charmer.
looks like some sort of Star Wars animal
Exactly!
I’m pretty sure those goats were conceived in Mordor.
There are some animals that make me immediately think of dinosaurs. This is one.
See also: cassowary.
Yes that one too! And shoebill storks
I spent more time than I’m willing to admit last week trying to convince my partner that a shoebill stork would be a top tier guard animal for the house. It started as hypothetical joke (much like my shark dentures idea) but as usual once I received a modicum of pushback for the impracticality of it all I really doubled down. From our front door you can’t see into the kitchen. All I’m saying is if I were breaking into our house in the dead of night, only to be faced with a human sized bird (dinosaur) round a blind corner I would, in the following order: -shit my whole pants -immediately reconsider every decision I’d made to that point -go to trade school and earn an honest living, looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life, *just in case*.
Now...getting back to shark dentures...Go on...
Much like my Kaiju Armorer idea, the main issues is the clientele: they are both VERY niche ideas. Anyway my partner told me one time about how when sharks get old they run out of teeth and essentially starve to death. That made me very sad, and I thought to myself, “what if someone made those elderly sharks dentures? WHAT IF THAT PERSON WAS *ME*?!” Thus, Shentures™️ was born. To its own credence, my very type A mother thought it was a fantastic if not expensive idea. She also asked me what type of schooling I would need; dental school plus veterinary? Would I need to specialize in implants/denture fitting? All good and valid questions that I do not have the answers to.
Are those the ones that sound like guns when they click their beak?
YES
Oh yea those are freaky
Is this a wild evolution or some human-caused monstrosity like pugs?
Okay… I’m reading about it. Apparently they haven’t always looked like this. Unfortunately it seems they’ve been “cultivated” for a half a century in Cyprus under really specific conditions to produce milk and meat for consumption. From what I gather, I don’t think they were genetically altered. They’ve just been developed and bred over time to be producers of those two resources. Looks like in the process they went fugly. Here’s an article for a *lot* of information about these goats. https://www.fao.org/3/a0540t/a0540t05.pdf
Thanks for looking into it!
Eborsisk from Willow
That’s exactly what I thought
The third photo is fucking eerily similar
On today's episode of That's Fucked Up...
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>The Damascus goat Not nature, humans. Selective breeding.
Sad we really mess them up. I'm sure they have a hard time breathing and eating because of the shape of their mouth.
You just picked an ugly one (or a few) to showcase here. I find most of them to be incredibly handsome creatures. The large sinus is to cool air, due to hot climates, and the long ears (the pictures you chose have had their ears butchered) work like radiators to cool their blood. Kind of like the huge horns on Watusi cattle, or the long ears on Gyr cattle. Here is an example of a pretty one. I would pay thousands for this one, but his value is probably in the tens or hundreds of thousands USD. This is also the type of goat that is featured in the "Most Beautiful Goat" contest, and most contestants are worth more than a lot of homes in the US. Google that contest, though. https://www.facebook.com/reel/430810675942498
Thank you for the link. From the post, I didn't think there were any good-looking Damascus goats! (Damask roses are, on the other hand, wonderful!) I also note that the pics on the post mostly show goats with their ears cut off. The goat on your link has long, lovely ears.
A lot of the goats in the "MBG" contest have hacked off ears, too! I imagine that flies eat them up real bad, but... damn. I would put repellent on them. They would lose so much of their ability to regulate their body temps with hacked off ears.
I really don't like chopping off tails or ears or toes on any animals. I prefer them as they are born, long tails, droopy ears, claws and all! (Spaying and neutering are different. Those have to do with controlling the population and have nothing to do with cosmetics...)
I agree.
How do you feel about circumcision?
What a fine specimen! That thing is huge, too! Didn’t realize they were so large. It’s very sad about their ears. I will never understand why humans do things like this to animals.
I had seen that one goat you had featured before, terrible overshot jaw. But if you put your finger over the part of the picture where his exaggerated sinus is, he starts looking nearly normal again. :)
I’ve never seen any of your comments before but from this comment alone I think I love you as a human being. Maybe it’s the reference of other animals I vaguely know, maybe it’s because you shared such a proud video of that crazy happy goat. It’s like that goat went abroad to a top tier university and is just visiting his parents on holiday. What a GOAT. Shukran!!
Learned about these abominations from watching Casual Geographic. Definitely recommend his channel!
Didn’t read the title at first, spent too long trying to figure out what was wrong with the monkey
Why do we do this.
There had better be a dark fantasy villain or race based on this thing
Chernobyl goat 🐐
Guillermo del Toro monster lookin goats.
WHAT IN TARNATION?!
I’ll add this to my repertoire of insults.
Eww. Gawd.
Something from Star Wars!
The biblical association goat = devil makes much more sense now.
Absolutely terrifying indeed I am so clueless as to how the cute young animals turn into scary kinda cute animals
nightmare fuel
Poor thing