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It all started when my friends and I decided to attend this intense fitness boot camp. We were convinced we would emerge as warriors rather than puddles of sweat. As we lined up for the first round of exercises, we noticed a poor guy in our class. He was giving it his all, probably trying to impress someone, but with each burpee, his face transitioned from determination to sheer panic. He was clearly on the edge of losing consciousness, and every time he hit the ground, we braced ourselves, half-expecting to hear a dramatic thud.
The real comedy gold came when it was time for the last round of sprinting. There he was, still pushing through, red-faced and wobbling like a newborn deer. As he crossed the finish line, arms flailing in a victory pose, he took one last step and fell… right into a conveniently placed pile of gym mats. Instead of panicking, he emerged from the pile with a smile, as if he’d just completed an Olympic event. The rest of us erupted in laughter, and his defiant grin became the highlight of our boot camp escapade. It was a reminder that sometimes, trying really hard can lead to unexpected moments of joy—especially when you land in a soft spot!
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Front wheel drive goat
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he was like, if i freeze will he notice me ?
T
Forgot to release the hand brake…
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I can smell this comment
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It’s more of a “make the goat smell funny” lever. – Mitch Hedberg probably
J
Keyser Soze ass
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Aqua Goat Wrangling at its peak.
M
This is adorable, they clearly know that’s a no-go zone but attempt it anyway
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A no-goat zone tout mean?
C
my workmates be like, “there’s a new food being served in the pantry, lets try it out”
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Bah oui
T
Having had goats, yes. They very much know right from wrong, but their will to explore is much greater than their will to not get caught.
K
I love how when dogs do wrong, they are already sitting in the corner and whimpering in anticipation of being told no. They have a vast conscience with very little impulse control.
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Dogs don’t feel guilt. They just don’t like being punished
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prove it. Thats what science suggests but has never been proven.
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the dog doesn’t feel guilt, it’s just learnt behavior. it knows to act sorry whenever you randomly punish it for no reason.
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That’s clearly not what the karma virus said. Dogs can demonstrate something that looks like contrition (I don’t know what they’re actually feeling) in anticipation of a firm NO! without any further consequences.
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he said vast conscious
K
“their will” “they’re will” how does this happen?
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I used the wrong one on both and only noticed the first one.
K
lol just thought it was funny
M
For goats NOTHING is a no-go zone. I’m never dealing with those shits again lmfao
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Yep. For instance, don’t leave your truck door open while you’re unloading hay.
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Once my buddy left his car trunk open, and my goat climbed on and chewed out the wires for the rear lights. They weren’t even visible, she pulled them out under the cover.
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I once saw a goat pissing into its own mouth
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I feel like this comment added nothing to the conversation but I appreciate you saying it.
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Oh sorry I thought we were talking about how goats are the literal manifestation of the devil
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That last one out of the building was definitely the instigator, or Instagoater, every herd has that one asshole.
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Kids will be kids I guess
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Why did homie float down the ramp like that? 😂
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Forgot the handbrake on
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*legbrake
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*Hambrake
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*Hoofbrake
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*hindbrake
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*legbroke
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If you want to know the scientific explanations: I suspect it’s a myotonic goat. They freeze up when they are in fear/adrenaline mode. Often used in large fields. When a predator attacks the herd, they only kill the myotonic goat (predator gets food = predator leaves again). Watch more videos of these goats, stupid fun to see them fall over
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Its seems a little wild that genetics would consider the whole group instead of just the individual.
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Very much a ‘fuck YOU in particular’ phenotype
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It must have been bred into the goats by humans through artificial selection. In a truly natural environment, that would guarantee you die and can’t reproduce. It is useful for a Sheppard who need to keep the rest of his flock alive. So they must have maintained that mutation in a population ever since as a decoy goat.
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Dormant genes that allow the rest of the herd to survive CERTAINLY can be passed down. If only 10% of the herd expresses the gene but it allows survival of the rest to flourish, that gene will propagate. Evolution is not about the individual.
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Not trying to be mean, but I think this is a common misconception. Selection operates at various levels, from the population to the individual and all the way down to individual genes. There was an ideological war among biologists at one point about at which level selection acts, and any evolutionist worth their salt can tell you it’s all of them at once. Selection on the individual is *very* effective compared to that on the population. For an allele with negative individual effects to get traction, it needs to disproportionately benefit *that same allele* at the population level. Think about individuals without that allele, whose offspring are both (a) more likely to avoid serving as the sacrificial lamb, and (b) still benefit from the competing genotype that gets sacrificed. Perversely, evolution can favor alleles that provide a fitness advantage of the individual relative to its neighbors even if there’s ultimately a negative impact on the population. Altruism does happen. It works best with close relatives, e.g. a parent exposing itself to harm to protect direct offspring. Social insects have a peculiar kind of relatedness that makes altruism much more selectable. But for most animals, simply sacrificing oneself to “save the herd” isn’t going to win out via selection.
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I gave up on explaining this, very much a Reddit moment of people talking about things they don’t actually know, and people upvoting the less informed comments lol.
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It drives me nuts. My whole graduate training was in evolutionary biology, and these half-baked interpretations of everything in the world being adaptive and/or for some greater good just reinforce for me how little people understand the basics. I just need to let it go, because you’re right that it’s just how Reddit rolls.
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I don’t get this logic. The ones with the gene will end up dying, meaning that gene will eventually be selected out. That is precisely how evolution works, no? Edit: I’m aware that goats with this gene expressed could have many babies before dying, and that one animals death can benefit the rest. But what I am talking about is the selection against this specific gene over many many generations, which is what evolution is. I don’t really understand genetics/evolution so maybe I’m way off base, but it seems like there is immense evolutionary pressure against this trait being passed on, because this trait leads to a much much higher probability of death in the individual that has it. Over many generations, this increased probability leads to this trait passing from existence. Evolution isn’t some intelligent force, it isn’t aware that passing on this gene is beneficial to survival just because some other animals will die in their place. Outside of human interference, it’s hard to imagine how this trait continues. But maybe I am completely misunderstanding how evolution works 🤷♂️
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The behavior could be controlled by multiple genes all at once. So any individual would need the exact right set to faint. The herd as a whole does better because of the sacrificial ones. Each individual that doesn’t faint passes along some portion of genes required for fainting, waiting for the right combination to produce offspring that do faint. Since those herds do better that gene pool comes to dominate. This is just a possible explanation though, I don’t know this for a fact.
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Not all genes are expressed. You can (and do) have genes that don’t necessarily express themselves. In fact, environmental factors (e.g. stress, diet, even temperature) often contribute to whether or not a gene expresses itself. So, like the person you’re replying to said — if the herd all carry the gene, but it only expresses in a few of them, and that contributes to their survival, the gene can continue to propagate.
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Yeah but their cousins and second cousins in the flock could be carriers of the gene but it doesn’t express. Secretly, the gene could be acting selfishly to preserve its carriers in the flock. Although, it’s a little far fetched to think that predators could eat the entire flock in one sitting
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goats have multiple young at once. one dying still allows the gene to pass on through the rest of the litter.
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No. If an individual exists long enough to inseminate or carry just once, evolution does not care if you live.
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