When I am reviewing manuscripts, I usually have to look up certain plant species I have never seen or specific terminology that is not part of my expertise.

Today I was looking for possible reasons why some goats kneel down on their front knees for browsing and grazing, something I have observed quite regularly during the dry seasons I spent in Tigray and Afar in Ethiopia (and more recently, I have seen warthogs do pretty much the same in South Africa). For goats, this behavior seems to be associated with CAE, Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis, a viral neurological disease in the spinal cord and brain of young kids and a joint infection of older goats resulting in arthritis.

From the same source, I also learned what’s left and right on a goat – pretty obvious I would say, but the illustration is priceless anyway.

Man and goat, earlier today, synchronizing their lefts and rights