Argan trees grow in Morocco, where people eat the trees' fruit and press the seeds for oil (don't tell RFK!). And where goats climb them to eat the fruit and leaves.
I know a thing or two about goats. They'll eat anything. They can climb anything. They can herd up to make it through anything. You can put one in a goatapult and it will cling for dear life, no matter how hard you actuate the device. But climb a tree? That's news to me.
It might be news to you too, so here's a video featuring someone channeling her inner Margaret Jo McCullin and herds of rascally goats hoofing it up and down some argan trees. Starting at 5:47, you can see some goats that have been herded into the equivalent of caprine hell, a Bummingdome if you will, forced to stand in one uncomfortable place for an extended period of time. As the narrator says, "Those goats standing in one spot are, unfortunately, unhappy goats."
May all the goats in your collective lives be happy goats.
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