Saturday, December 28, 2013

Funny Stuff from 2013, Part III: Texas, Kenyans, and Fainting Goats




Missing their traditional grub, two Kenyan guys visit a Texas farm to buy a goat. But these goats aren't like the goats back home!  --From National Geographic





5 comments:

  1. I'm with the Kenyans on this one. Stiffening up and keeling over at the slightest provocation can't be healthy.

    I suppose it's too much to hope for that they decided to give the salads a chance?

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  2. ok... waiting for part 4...

    Avoiding huge goats that sing 'Oh,Canada'

    ....hey, might be worth a post....just saying.

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  3. Interesting example of peculiar phylogenetics proving it's Darwinian value: Kenyans won't eat a fainting goat. Love it.

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  4. So did NatGeo set this up as "an outsider's look at America"? I mean, taking them to the fainting goat farm was obviously a setup, but they at least come across as very intelligent, just confused by these weird Americans....

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  5. Infidel753, warm goat cheese salad is a winner for me.


    okjimm, you are prescient! Wait and see.

    BBIdaho, thanks for introducing me to that biology term:

    "Evolution is a process whereby populations are altered over time and may split into separate branches, hybridize together, or terminate by extinction. The evolutionary branching process may be depicted as a phylogenetic tree, and the place of each of the various organisms on the tree is based on a hypothesis about the sequence in which evolutionary branching events occurred."

    The fainting goats are a good example.

    Nameless Cynic, I'm guessing this was a set up, but the ensuing result was very funny.

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