Goat Day
We defined animal behavior as essentially anything that animals do in response to their environment.
Animals engage in behaviors for four basic purposes:
to find their basic needs
to avoid predation
to reproduce and interact socially
to maintain health and resist diseases.
We started with observations of the goats in order to answer the following questions:
Who is related to whom?
Who is male/female among the herd?
How do does (female goats) treat babies that are not their own?
List all of the behaviors goats exhibit?
We watched a fun video explaining the science behind goat vision, balance and more.
We watched a section of this khan academy video about human lactation and drew parallels to goat lactation and milking.
Then we demonstrated how to milk goats and process the milk.
We also demonstrated how to trim the goats feet and discussed general goat care.
We ended with students getting the chance to hold the baby goats.