The
animal kingdom and a report by Thomas Thwaites from the frontline of
Goatland. There, our intrepid correspondent satisfies his curiosity
sufficiently to enable him to answer the question: what would it be like
to be a goat? Thwaites, a designer known for creating a toaster from
the crumbs up found he had room in his life for another quirk. So he set
out to create a goat exoskeleton, plus a prosthetic stomach to aid
grass digestion, after taking advice from ethologists, neuroscientists
and goatherds. And then he headed to the Alps to join a herd. Thwaites
relates that it’s hard work being a goat, what with all that
mountaineering, plus remembering not to challenge the boss goat by
climbing higher than him. Thwaites originally proposed stepping outside
the human psyche by adopting the traits of an elephant but, despite
being granted funding by an arts organisation, settled on the
less-challenging goat mode
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