Goat in a bad mood shouted "Help" to the police

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The goat was in a bad mood and shouted "Help" and the police were dispatched

Reporter : Li Zhaoxi / Editor : Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/05/11/a103709428.html / Image : A pair of goats roam the woods above the beach in Bournemouth, England, on 9 January 2023. (Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

The police will take swift action after receiving a call for help. Two officers with the Enid Police Department in Oklahoma were called to a case that turned out to be a "false alarm" and a "help" call from a goat.

Police officers David Sneed and Neal Storey were on duty on Wednesday (10 May 2023) when they received a report of someone yelling "help".

Quickly heading to the location of the report to investigate, they ran towards a voice. Body camera footage shared on Facebook showed officers running down a road toward what they believed to be a person in distress.

The cry for help sounded muffled, similar to that of a grown man, and grew louder and closer as the brave officer ran off in an uncertain direction.

Then, they came to a farm. Ned and Storey quickly realized that "the man in distress they thought" was a tantrum-losing animal.

"It's a goat," said Ned.

"A goat?" a puzzled Storey responded, before laughing, "Ah, yes!"

The rancher explained to the officers that the rambunctious goat was upset at being separated from his friends.

When the goat continued to call for help, the farmer greeted and laughed with Sneed and Storey outside the sheepfold, and the farmer's dog, unwilling to be left out, joined the rowdy crowd.

"Sometimes a phone call can really drive you crazy," the department said in a statement. "Thank you, gentlemen. We all appreciate your prompt action (even though it wasn't necessary in the end). In short, you really can't say it was a bad call."

Goats are thought to be one of the first animals to be domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Unlike many domestic animals, goats have been known to possess great curiosity and intelligence and can squeeze into the most unlikely places. Goats may actually be as good as dogs when it comes to "talking" to humans, research suggests.

Goats can communicate with humans in much the same way as their canine companions, according to a 2016 study in the journal Biology Letters by biologists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

The researchers found that when the goats were active, they were more likely to have their ears forward and their tails up, and to make more "steady" calls with less variation in frequency.

When goats are faced with a problem they cannot solve, they use their gaze in the same way dogs do. For example, if a goat cannot reach a small piece of delicious food, the goat will repeatedly look at the person and food in the same room.

Goats rarely look at them to ask for help getting food if a person has their back turned to them, but they use this gaze technique more often if the person is looking at them. Researchers say these animals are far smarter than people thought.