A new study reports that goats can use direction from human voices to find hidden food treats. Across experiments, researchers present goats with a choice of locations involving a treat-filled bucket and guide the animals using human vocal cues. The results show that the goats move toward the treat location about 60% of the time when guided by a researcher’s voice. The findings suggest that goats can interpret human auditory signals in a way that allows them to locate objects, paralleling abilities previously demonstrated in dogs. The study also notes that some other species, including chimpanzees, have struggled in comparable tasks that require using human cues to find hidden items. While the exact experimental setup and comparison methods vary across descriptions, the shared outcome is that goats reliably respond to the direction of a human voice more than would be expected by chance. The researchers present the work as evidence that goats possess a relatively uncommon capacity among animals to follow human communication toward a food source.