Originally published at: Watch a goat check out a wall, then quickly scale it, parkour-style | Boing Boing
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More proof that we need a goat-based superhero franchise!
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I once had a cat that did that same move on a smooth plaster wall when confronted with a DOG in its living room for the first time. Traction is proportional to concern over one’s life times inherent agility.
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Words to live by…
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i like how it sort of glances back and all but gives a physical shrug at the end.
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Those 4 additional courses of cinderblocks accomplished little
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Greatest of all time.
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I wonder what an EEG would look like with such a series of rapid fire decisions. That was amazing.
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Do your morning stretches, I ain’t kidding…
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it’s not totally clear to me if senses like proprioception have to reach the brain or not for decision making. id imagine at least some of it - like traction and pressure feedback - is probably literal muscle memory
random fun fact that i do know: the word “cybernetic” was first coined for the concept of both high level and low level feedback used to make decisions like this ( and walking, and opening doors, and of course steering boats down the khyber river: khyber naut ) - william gibson took it from there to cyberspace some thirty years later
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I see what you did there.
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We had a cat whose ability to reinterpret physics was fair astonishing. She once jumped “into” the bathtub, mistakenly assuming it was empty. She saw the water, somehow performed an aerial 180° turn, touched the water with only One Back Toe, and leaped away. When we caught up to her, only that toe and the very tip of her tail (which was also V much involved in all that split-nanosecond crazy steering) were wet!
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God, I love goats. They’re like cool sheep.
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Goats = sheep with attitude.
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Given my agility is zero, let’s see, multiply by, plus, divide…
yup, that’s what I thought
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