Goats look on the sunny side of things

The Humane Society of the United States reports that goats can be optimists. A study compared goats who had been abused before being rescued to goats that had never been mistreated.

The mistreated female goats were more likely to approach and trust previously unseen buckets of food that had replaced buckets containing their favorite treats.

“The researchers reasoned that the animals recognized their once-stressful living situation had improved, rendering them more optimistic.”