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The Tree Goats of Morocco
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By Spooky | 25 CommentsLeave a Comment
Last updated: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Did you know goats could climb trees? Well, anyway, I didn’t but it turns out, goats climb trees very often in Morocco.

These Moroccan goats you see in the photos climb the Argan trees with incredible ease, in order to get to the delicious fruits that the locals use to make oil. I knew some things about goats, but the fact that they climb trees was not one of them. And before you start yelling “It’s photoshopped!” check out the video at the bottom.

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25 comments
  1. chachi
    July 16, 2008

    holy cow, that’s amazing.

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  2. peter
    July 17, 2008

    great~!!!!

    Amazing~!!!!

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  3. w
    July 17, 2008

    funny goats confused tree with mountain

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  4. Joss
    July 17, 2008

    This video has been photoshopped !

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  5. f
    July 17, 2008

    Don’t you mean holy goat?

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  6. jim bob jones
    July 17, 2008

    it’s videoshopped…

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  7. David
    July 17, 2008

    It’d be neat to see a video of the goats jumping into the tree.

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  8. jesuswuzanalien
    July 17, 2008

    Fake, they photoshopped out all of the tin cans from the tree.

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  9. Pesho
    July 18, 2008

    It’s premiered!

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  10. Barbie
    July 20, 2008

    dats weird

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  11. Michael J. Schmitz
    July 23, 2008

    My thoughts are that they at one time were being persued by a predator and took to the tree up high for safety. So the trait continues. Its truely amazing and one of a kind.

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  12. Rob
    July 25, 2008

    It’s a rare Goat Tree.

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  13. Lewis
    July 26, 2008

    Goat tree?
    Isn’t that a type of beard?

    …..I’m sorry

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  14. Rozmarija
    July 27, 2008

    It’s true. They eat the “nuts” which grow on those trees. After the nuts have passed through their digestive system and are expelled, boys gather and sell them to people who process them and express an oil from them, which is used in cooking. The digestive system softens the out shell. That’s the truth, no kidding. We have a little bottle of it but have never tried it.

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  15. ngagspa
    July 28, 2008

    I saw this myself in 1973, after reading about it and not believing it either. There was no other vegetation anywhere else around, so I assumed the goats went into the tree to get what little green stuff existed. I didn’t know about the nuts.

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  16. cribcat
    July 29, 2008

    If you were hungry you’d climb a tree in a heartbeat. Even dogs can climb trees

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  17. Angel
    August 1, 2008

    Goats do not climb trees!!! It is the sheperds who put the goats up in the tree. They do it because there is no grass in Marroco, then they can eat leaves from the trees.

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  18. Beefy
    August 4, 2008

    Angel you really should check the internet before saying dumb shit. Google tree climbing goats and you’ll find video of them climbing the argan trees. A new idiot finds the internet every day!!!

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  19. Jenna
    August 4, 2008

    Amazing! That’s so cool.

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  20. Tomaz
    August 4, 2008

    Saw this in Peru up in the Andes. But not quite as many as these Moroccans… Thinking about it now I suppose it was the same reason - not much grass around so they thought they’d give the tree a go.

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  21. Jesse
    August 4, 2008

    Nahhh guys, they weren’t climbing the trees, that’s where goats come from. They are credited as being the only animal in the world that spawns from plant life. It’s true, look it up. They don’t mate and give birth to babies, like all other animals in the world. No joke. I thought everyone already knew this though, the goats featured in the video were ripe, so they fell, hence the saying “The goat doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

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  22. PW
    August 8, 2008
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  23. Brian
    August 17, 2008

    Ive seen them recently was in Morocco 2 moths ago and saw the goats climbing trees near Agadir.

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  24. oh shit
    August 18, 2008

    finally the truth comes out!

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  25. steve
    August 18, 2008

    VIDEOSHOPPED!

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