While ago, reader Bart Wouters sent me this photo of a Goat family that climbs trees in search for food. Bart says it’s no illusion – it’s real. I also received a link with an explanation. What made me think. Internet as a medium can push a story as unbelievable as this one, and we believe it without thinking much about it. I checked the website, and have to say it gave good explanation, but am still not sure what to think. Can you help me? The second photo of lions on a tree is probably real. But I can’t figure how those goats climbed up there? They don’t appear much athletic. The explanation says: “In drought-ridden conditions when there is little else to eat, goats will climb up a variety of trees in many of the warmer countries in the world (Morocco). Some holidaymakers to the Mediterranean countries come back with amazing photos of goats grazing in trees. The most spectacular of these pictures originate from South-West Morocco, where there is a unique habitat of semi-desert Argan Forest, which is sadly declining. Nearly half of the forest has disappeared in comparison with Victorian times. ” This is probably, why they have to climb trees – to eat and survive! I’m still doubtful…
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Goats climbing Trees??? i highly doubt it- unless they are mountain goats =\
That lion picture looks like a rainforest to me… And do lions live in rainforests?
Jesus christ people why do you not think its real? In warm, dry countries particularly in the Mediterranean this is perfectly normal behaviour as the goats want to get to the water and nutrients provided by the leaves.
Nevertheless still an awesome photo and who cares if its not an illusion? I enjoyed it
I couldn’t believe in what I saw, but now I have no doubt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwhBYKLFZAU
it is true..i’ve seen them on National Geographic…both pics are true..no photoshopped been done here…
FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE TINY FAKE
wtf the lions r like posing for a camera…
Yes the picture is real ~ if any of you have ever cared for goats you would know that just like cats you find them in the weirdiest places – like up in a tree, they are great climbers and it makes you crazy trying to figure out how they climbed up there – and then you help them down and they will climb right back up there again! It’s not a fake
hmm… here’s a great explanation 4 u…
it’s called PHOTOSHOP!!!
i thought this was optical illusion of the day, not crappy photoshop job of the day…
Wild goats (and assumingly any goats) definately DO climb trees. Strange and rather hart to believe, but true. I watched some animal special on the Discovery Channel a while back with Jeff Corwin – those bloody goats were leaping off the branches all around him!
The goats on the highest branches look a little odd though… I’d say that this picture might be photoshopped to some degree – but the concept is real.
I have personally been to places in the Northern African area (Morroco and Tunisia). In Fact, the goats there (and in other places) do climb trees. It is an adaptation they have evolved with because ground vegetation is scarce, and as a way to evade predators. Goats do this often in these coutries. Not everything in the world is photoshopped. Just because it doesn’t seem possible doesn’t mean it isn’t. And the lions are obviously real too.
people who said it was photoshopped (including me) were wrong. check out this site…
http://www.the-tree.org.uk/SpecialBranch/InTree/goats.htm
same goats, different angle:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanj_b/315914970/
hey, photoshop could do this, however I have seen video footage of these or similar type goats up tiney trees. They have really small hooves because they developed in mountains, and areas with hard conditions requiring odd skills like these. Sheep are also from high ground, which is why they can eat very short grass and they get foot rot easily because they arent evolved to cope with low, wetter ground.
I am veary doughtful about the goats, especialy since the picture looks like it could have been photoshoped.
However, I know as a fact that lions can and will clime trees.
ok the goat one is so obviously shopped it’s not funny.
or interesting, I wouldn’t say a goat couldn’t do it, but they should just get a real picture next time.
There’s videos on youtube of goats climbing trees. I know youtube isn’t a particularly reliable source of biological knowledge, but its hard to photoshop video.
I think this photograph is genuine. Goats are very good climbers. What is interesting about this is that it DOES function like an illusion. We are presented with an image that our brain is unused to process, so it interprets it as something else. Our inflexible adult minds tell us goats do not climb trees, so we interpret this as a hoax.
ok, dont be bloody stupid of course its fake, firstly the branches are 2 thin to hold a goat, secondly the tree is dead and does not provide anyshad so the goats would not go there for shade!!! and also there is no way that goats can climb the not monkeys. but then again thats just me ;)
the goat on top is photoshopped. but goats do really climb trees for food. the picture may be photoshopped but there are others similar rthat arent
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neither of these photos are fake. In africa both goats and lions climb trees. Have you tried looking it up on youtube… these heaps of videos there that show goats climbing trees… Its actually really amazing….
wonder how the goats got on that tree i hope its not photoshoped becouse an illusion isnt an illusion if something is photoshoped :(
i have seen goats in trees before in jamaica…
Enough evidence for the goats, provided by… google.
Google -> Pictures -> keywords “goat in tree” -> enjoy.
there both real check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQev3UoGp2M