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The man who tried to live as a GOAT

August 15, 2015
Thomas Thwaites, a 34-year-old researcher from London, has spent the past year creating prosthetics that allow him to roam around on all fours
Thomas Thwaites, a 34-year-old Londoner, wanted a simpler way of life .he studied their behaviour, learned their way of communicating and even attempted to create an artificial goat stomach to allow him to eat grass. lol all this for science

The researcher spent three days living as part of a herd in the Swiss Alpsva t one point, Thwaites said  he felt like all the goats were turning on him
In the future, he says robotics could be used to de-volve instead of evolve
Getting used to the prosthetic goat legs proved challenging for Thwaites. Without any hands free, he would often end up flat on his faceWhy would anyone go to such lengths to be a goat? ‘I suppose it was because it could be fairly difficult, depressive and just stressful being a human being,’ Thwaites told DailyMail.comThe prosthetics were painful, the landscape was tough and Thwaites was constantly battling the cold. Those challenges, however, were nothing compared to the task of convincing the herd he was one of themAfter his three days living with the herd in the Alps, Thwaites spent another three days as a goat living alone