Scientists from London's Queen Mary University conducted a study, whose results are published, izdaniia Biology Letters. Another experiment on the domestication of animals and their ability to communicate with the man were held in domestic goats in the nursery Buttercups.

It is reported that the study involved 34 adult females and males with experience of communication with people. Animals were given a task - they had to get to the Goodies in the box, which on their own could not. The incident was recorded on video. Every time there was a man. Moreover, in various embodiments, the experimenter looked either at the animal or in the side of it.

And it played a role. Experiments have shown that goats trying to establish contact with the person looking at them. According to scientists, animals are literally asked the experimenter about the help about the same, as do dogs. With this task successfully coped 32 participants of the experiment.