Moroccan Climbing Goats

When visiting southwestern Morocco it’s not uncommon to come across hordes of goats. Only that instead of foraging for food on the ground, you’ll often find them perched on top of trees, much like what’s seen in this photo. Morocco is a mostly dry country and with scarce vegetation, the hardy ruminants adapted to scaling up argan trees to search for food. Farmers even encourage the domesticated creatures to feed off the trees because they can’t digest the argan nuts. The farmers then collect the nuts excreted by the goats, and perhaps it’s worth mentioning that they are cleaned before being ground up to produce argan oil.