Zeitler: Grazing goats discern leaves from cocoons and avoid destroying nests
Jennifer Zeitler · Meet The HIBT Fellows: Dinesh Tadepalli & Jennifer Zeitler · May 25, 2021 · at 16:11
Jennifer Zeitler explains the ecological advantages of using goat grazing over mechanical clearing for land management.
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“And the wonderful thing about using goats versus the method that you were just describing is that the goats eat around birds' nests. They eat around chrysalis and cocoons that might be growing on the bush. They can actually discern, like, what's a leaf and what's a cocoon and leave that alone.”
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