Most people come to my blog for the following reasons:

While the intellectual discussion about goat and sheep sounds is stimulating and the most pathetic animal debate enthralling, I’d like to think I have more to offer.

Apparently I don’t.

So until I find something to offer, I probably won’t blog much. Unless its about food. Yeah, food…

Further investigation of the search terms bringing people to my site revealed the traffic increase was due to, well… goats… More specifically, the sounds they make. Apparently, this is a common question. Most interesting is that I’m in the top Google results for “what sounds do goats make”.

If I were to categorize the search terms in March, here is how they’d stack up:

And just because I can, here’s a 3D pie chart:

I’m not sure if there’s a market for questions about goats or elementary questions in general, but I intend to capture it.

So I set out provide Nilofer- oops, I mean my friend- some insight with only google at my disposal. I also realized there was context to my friend’s question:

1. She was unaware that sheep and lambs were the same animal: so she probably would believe anything I said
2. By “sound” she meant the human manufactured sounds attributed to animals as we grow up: so basically, don’t take this too seriously
   

So after journeying for a long and terrifying 10s through the interweb, I came across my answer: While the noises between sheep and goats are distinguishable by an experienced ear, goats also make a “baaa” sound in addition to a “maaa” sound. Goats also tend to be slightly higher pitched.

All this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise as goats and sheep are closely related species, outside of number of chromosomes, stomachs, horns, etc… See chimeras.

For more goat sounds go here.