Man gives up being human to live like a goat

Have you ever met someone so intrigued by something that it completely consumes them?

Well Thomas Thwaites is such a man because his love of goats has led him to give it all up so that he can dwell with the animals in the mountains.

Thomas spent three days as part of a herd in the Swiss Alps while investigating goat behaviour.

The designer even had prosthetic limbs specially made so that he could move around on all fours easily.

So taken was he with the ruminants that he even considered having a fake stomach fitted to let him to eat grass, just like the goats.

Mr Thwaites cited “taking a break from being human” as the reason behind his move.

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.”

Thomas is a British conceptual designer interested in how humans will use technology to fulfill their desires.

But being a goat wasn’t a completely care-free existence.

He told Motherboard: “I was able to keep up with the goats for maybe a kilometre or so. When they got to the side of a rocky mountain, they just left me in the dust. So I spent the rest of the day trying to catch up to them and eventually I found them again.”

Being a human has its advantages, and Thwaites realized this when he went tumbling down the side of a mountain.

“But actually heading down the mountain was petrifying. Because if I fell I didn’t have any hands to stop me from hitting a rock,”

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