Meet the man who gave up being human to live like a GOAT
Thomas Thwaites spent three days as part of a herd in the Swiss Alps while investigating goat behaviour
Thomas Thwaites spent three days as part of a herd in the Swiss Alps while investigating goat behaviour.
He used special prosthetic limbs made to enable him to move around on all fours easily.
Mr Thwaites cloven-hooved sojourn was aimed at "taking a break from being
He told Mashable: "My goal was to take a holiday from the pain and worry of being a self-conscious being, able to regret the past and worry about the future."
But being a goat wasn't a completely care-free existence.
"So I spent the rest of the day trying to catch up to them and eventually I found them again, and it was quite nice, in the actual soft grassy pasture bit.
Thwaites has written a book about his experiences, called ‘GoatMan; How I Took a Holiday from Being Human’.