The most beautiful female goat in the world

Photo: Ali Jarekji / Reuters

Wasieef, a Maaz Al Shami (Damascene goat), won the first prize for the "Most Beautiful Goat" title in the female category at a recent event in Amman, Jordan. The Mazayen al-Maaz competition was the first such event held in the desert kingdom. If you would like to see Wasieef looking right at you, a portrait is after the jump.

Photo: Ali Jarekji / Reuters

• [Donald Petersen]

  Nope.  That’s a “go thither” glance if ever I saw one.

• [jtegnell]

  Hey! It’s an oviraptor!

• [Ashen Victor]

  I´m not an expert goat connoisseur, but that goat looks freaking ugly!
   

  • [Rob Beschizza]

    You keep your thoughts to yourself around Wasieef!

• [BarBarSeven]

  God works in mysterious ways! And my lord that is one ugly goat.

• [satn]

  HAWT!

• [niro5]

  Awww, she looks deeeelicious!  **licks lips**

• [Kara Dennison]

  It’s Nessie!!!!!!

• [ROSSINDETROIT]

  Thank you for not posting the swimsuit competition or talent portion of the contest.

  • [Steve Schnier]

    The Swimsuit Competition was cancelled for “inciting lust”.  Unfortunately.

• [Jax C]

  From the front she looks like she’s been in that boxing ring against a right bruiser.

• [hapa]

  this is how covering women’s faces distorts democracy.

• [Alvis]

  I’m freaked out that it -doesn’t- have oval pupils.

  • [hapa]

    goat pupils open to round in low light. only rectangular when closed against brightness.

• [pizzicato]

  meh, it’s just a goat…. Do you know that goat is the first domesticated animal in which human kept for milk, and of course churn it into those revolting goat cheese before kittens came along.

  • [Doug Black]

    Do you know that goat is the first domesticated animal in which human
    kept for milk, and of course churn it into those revolting goat cheese
    before kittens came along.

    Wait, I’m confused.  Are you suggesting that when kittens came along humans kept them for milk, or that when kittens came along humans churned them into revolting cheese? 

  • [Edward Scott]

    KITTEN CHEESE!!!

• [Teirhan]

  How is that goat in any way attractive.

  The goats that trim grass around the development my house is in look nice than that.

  D:

• [Jens Reuterberg]

  Beauty is really in the eye of the beholder… If you like goats with flappy lips then fine. Although I gotta admit I have never asked myself “is this a good looking animal” when I see a goat.

  • [BarBarSeven]

    Beauty is really in the eye of the beholder…

    Get your eyes checked.

    • [AnthonyC]

      Whenever I hear or read “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” I can’t help but think of this.

• [jere7my]

  That is not a goat. That is a CGI extra from a Star Wars prequel.

• [lecti]

  So many goats, so little time.

• [amanicdroid]

  I don’t understand the words or how they relate to pictures of a space alien.

• [tiredofit]

  Hating on women again by taking that first picture and posting it.  Dang you Boing Boing!

• [woodly]

  They need to have her walk out to “Jizz In My Pants”.

• [Per Sterud]

  Those pictures are deceptive in that they show the wrong side of the goat. They’re judging her by how trim her grass is, if you know what I mean.

• [treacle]

  I don’t know about beautiful OR ugly.. but that is by far the /weirdest/ looking goat I’ve ever seen.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  She probably uses IE6, too.

• [fxq]

  Livestock loving is serious business.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anzn5u–AZ4

• [PhosPhorious]

  The front view is fine. . .  archetypally “goat like”.  I think.  I live in suburbia and so have no idea.

  The side view?  Creepy.  Taun-Taun just before it freezes to death creepy.

• [KBert]

  Pix of chicks, eh – Where’s the Broats?

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  Ah. Some context and proof that it could be worse.

  http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/04/beauty-goat.html

  • [querent]

    Oh man.  That is a truly awesome animal.

• [Lobster]

  In profile it looks like a bird. :O

  • [Sharon Aloni]

    i was thinking brontosaurus

• [willyboy]

  I’m speechless.

• [Soliloquy]

  100 guys, 1 goat.

• [jimbuck]

  If that’s the most beautiful female goat, I don’t want to see the ugliest.  Holy moses, that’s freakish looking.  

• [mellowknees]

  It thoroughly reminds me of Beauregard from The Muppet Show.
  http://my-online-log.com/tech/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/300px-Beau08.jpg

• [alfredo_tomato]

  Her skin will make a fine drum. 

• [irksome]

  The face that launched a 1000 “holy shits!”.

• [sabeke]

  Not a lot of women in that crowd of onlookers…

• [edi]

  I think she’s pretty.

• [Dave Watson]

  I thought for sure that goat had some kind of birth defect or genetic deformity. But it appears that the Damascene goats are actually bred to look like that. I mean, it’s no Chase No Face, but seriously? That frickin’ ugly goat won a beauty contest?

• [bluedream]

  Who does her hair?  The color is fabulous!

  Ouch.  They’ve chopped her ears.

  • [xwizbt]

    Just spotted your post after mine, but yes – someone’s cropped her ears. Who would do that to a goat? It’s illegal to do that to a dog here in the UK, but I’m not sure about goats. Still, that seems pretty unpleasant.

  • [Juta Stokes]

    That’s what I thought!  About her ears, not her hair.  Just as the western world is started to get over the need to chop off puppy tails and ears for cosmetic reasons, we discover that they’re doing the same to goats elsewhere.  When will we be happy to leave an animal looking as evolution very intelligently designed it?

    • [AirPillo]

      Body modifications should be an automatic disqualification. Taking a knife to an animal has nothing at all to do with your skill at breeding and raising them, which is what’s really being tested in pet and livestock competitions in the first place.

      Want short ears on a Damascene goat? Breed a short-eared lineage and show your skill.

      (though honestly selective breeding can be just as inhumane. Many bulldogs are more or less damned to poor health from birth, and other breeds are just as screwed.)

• [Isabelle Lafreniere]

  When compared to other pictures of the breed, this one looks downright deformed. Which begs the question: how did it win the title? http://www.flickr.com/photos/brunton/390045853/

  • [Glippiglop]

    Yeah, from the front view it looks like it has a collapsed bridge, plus it’s way off-centre too. I’m thinking its face is the result of a birth defect or some type of disease – and hopefully not the product of an injury.

  • [zombiebob]

    personality?

  • [papiermeister]

    Those look like what we call nubians here in the US.

• [xwizbt]

  Haven’t they cut half her ears off?

  • [papiermeister]

    Horrible, isn’t it? Especially when their long ears are so pretty. In fact, part of judging the nubian goat (in a livestock show here in the US) is that if their ears are actually longer than their nose, the higher the score! While on my farm we would tattoo registration numbers to the inside of their ears (rather than putting a tag in there like with cattle) docking, cropping or cutting those lovely ears would be simply barbaric! Say what you will about the tattoos…

  • [Mar Quintana]

    yes :(

• [Boomer]

  Us old goat ropers don’t care what she looks like.  Love is were you find it.

  • [BarBarSeven]

    So you love ewe?

  • [Doug Black]

    Love is were you find it.

    As it were.

• [fnc]

  She’ll make a lovely bride.

• [Robbo]

  Maybe they’re judged from the other end.

• [CastanhasDoPara]

  You guys are mean. She’s not ugly, she’s special.

• [mavin]

  mm, racism and misogyny. fine bedfellows! nice going, boing boing commentators

• [andy]

  Someone explain to me why the Sheep doesn’t have to wear a Burkha?

• [David Barak]

  Nice teets…

  Anyway, she looks like a sock puppet from the side. And pizzicato, I had goat cheese on a pizza once (no pun on your screen name intended). Pretty good stuff.

• [jennybean42]

  Maybe they aren;t judging her by her face…

• [MelSkunk]

  I guess this proves that breeding smooshface animals for no good reason is not a decedent western thing. 

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    You mean like Persian cats?

    • [MelSkunk]

      Persian cats who were smooshed by British and American Breeders in the last 75 years? Why no I don’t think I did.

• [Colin Presby]

  I still like Peggy better!  http://www.slyfoxbeer.com/index.php/front/news_archive/90

• [cfuse]

  Goat of my nightmares.

• [Alan]

  I just did a Google image search of Damascene goats, and by golly, this one is a pretty typical example.  Thems a mighty peculiar breed of goat! And, it turns out, they take a lot of these prizes.

• [papiermeister]

  Hey, I grew up on a goat dairy farm and we had 35 goats that we milked and bred for milk and meat. My goats were beautiful. This goat is a freak! WTF is that shortened and arced nose and serious underbite? How does this animal even chew food (or cud, as they are ruminates). We raised nubian goats who have a characteristic “Roman” nose, as it was called (please don’t flame me – that really was the official description) but this poor being seems to have been beaten or worse! Nubian goats ARE beautiful with their long ears and big noses, but to think of lopping of their ears is just horrible!

  One year, one of our does gave birth to twins in the dead of winter in the middle of the night that was well below freezing. We awoke to morning milking to find two shivering, sweet babies with frostbite to their sweet little ears. They both lived to be strong, old – well – goats with mismatched *cropped* ears!

  I miss all of them. Goats are very intelligent, affectionate and capricious. Yup, stubborn as a goat!

  Here is a little something I wrote about our goats, if anyone cares: Goats and Fences I really loved them all…

  • [Heguiberto Souza]

    that’s the origin of the word capricious and its meaning… the Latin name for goat.
    they are cute but this one freaks me out lol

    Hegs
    http://weirdcombinations.com/2009/09/goat-songs/

• [Ted Brennan]

  I am more of a sheep man, myself…

• [papiermeister]

  ‘kay, I googled the damascene goat as well, and they are like smush-faced nubians, if you ask me. Weird… But here is another breed that defies ideal *beauty* in livestock (although I am quite fond of this breed) LaMancha Dairy Goats in Dairy Goat Journal The ideal animal has no outer ear at all – kind of like one of my frost bite babies! Perhaps that is where the affection comes from.

  BTW I subscribed to DGJ for years , and the registry behind the mag, American Dairy Goat Association, registered the pedigree of all of our goats.

• [AirPillo]

  Ears cut in half and her muzzle looks like it’s been smashed in with the way it’s deviated to the side.

  Abuse is beautiful? Are they celebrating the goat or how much she’s been fucked up?

• [awjt]

  Hey.  Put yourself in a male goat’s shoes.  THEN LOOK AT HER AGAIN.  See what I mean?  Yuuuuuup.  That’s right.  Now you know what I’m talking about?

  • [zombiebob]

    Those eyes… those enchanting eyes…

• [BuzzCoastin]

  Taliban FAP material?

• [BarBarSeven]

  Now I know what this goat’s face reminds me of: Hand shadow puppets!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RjmbCYJoEk

• [troutfishinginamerica]

  Absolutely astonished that no one’s mentioned Edward Albee’s “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?” yet.

• [Cam Iam]

  Mesah no liken dat goatah mug. 
  Isah looken like poo doo!

• [papiermeister]

  @ Heguiberto
  I read this book, too and loved it.The way Brad Kessler tells of raising goats is SOOO true. You can tell by the way he tells this story that he loved his goats the same way I loved mine! What an incredible read and I really thank you for including that in this discussion!!! Yes, we made goat cheese on our farm as well. Maybe not under the same conditionss, but as a Buddhist, myself, I can see the meditative journey that cheese making can bring. And the sheer joy of partaking of that endeavor! May all sentient beings be enlightened by this effort! om ah hung!

• [AirPillo]

  http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/00693/eng_goat_GB1_BM_Bay_693415p.jpg
  If I’m not mistaken this one was among the competitors, in the same breed. Maybe it was male and in a different category? It seems a prettier animal, and nobody’s mutilated the thing. That’s two reasons to deserve a win.

• [atimoshenko]

  Was Lyn Cassady on the panel of judges?

• [zweii]

  I notice there isn’t a single human girl in the crowd. Is this the equivalent of a stripclub in Jordan?

• [Plays with knives]

  I hope she looks better from behind.

• [Guy]

  you can almost see the drool dripping down all the men’s mouths. Only thing missin is homer and his hmmmm sexyyyy goats….

• [snagglepuss]

  I’VE SEEN PRETTIER FACES ON AN IODINE BOTTLE!!!

• [ocschwar]

    *yawn* 

  County fair, Arab style, so they have a goat show instead of a pumpkin weigh-in.

• [yahoo-OSDK2E7QPTRPANLPSNNUWJBUC4]

  It says a lot about the esthetic capacity of our readership at large, not just BB, that hardly anyone seems to get a lot out of these pictures. It says even more about media, publicity and the programming of readers’ visual cues. How is this goat so different from a Shar-Pei or a Chow Chow? Breeders have appreciated the subtle and not-so-subtle exaggerations of animal features for longer than human cultures have had history. The same readership that prides itself on its humanity when faced with difficult issues stumbles right out of the door when there is a change of context. All humor aside, it must be said that this kind of reaction seems a little to close to the rejection of different cultures, or discrimination. This is a stunningly beautiful animal, or don’t we learn anything from wildlife documentaries and magazines, or from travel? Why do people have no love for the “exotic”, which is actually what we should be viewing as our heritage? Our identities as citizens of one country or another are way overdue for change, and recognizing the limits of the span of our personal knowledge is probably one of the best places to start!

• [Brent Kirkham]

  In the picture itself, itself, it’s not the goat that worries me, so much as the look on the faces of all those men.  Then again I know people who go doolally (real word) over horses, dogs, etc.  It’s a cultural thang I suppose.

  My first thought was that it would end up being the best kebab ever.  So many recipes………….
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebab

• [Sarah Shevett]

  Here in the US we have also recently crowned our most beautiful goats, at our American Dairy Goat Association’s National Show just last week in Massachusetts.

  Compare and contrast:
  http://www.adga.org/pages_adga/nationalshow/2011/ResultsMain.htm

• [merrick04]

  Shouldn’t she be disqualified for having had plastic surgery? She’s obviously had the ends of her ears cut off. They don’t grow that way.

• [nowforever]

  it’s freaking awesome that somewhere in the world a beauty competition is being won by someone with truly exotic features. this goat is beautiful and totally out of this world.

• [Sarah Shevett]

  http://boingboing.net/2008/06/16/photos-of-strangeloo.html

• [Daren_Gray]

  I’d hit it.

• [IronyElemental]

  Beautiful? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

• [Mr. Winka]

  1. Cold hooves, warm heart. 
  2. “Why you always telling me to go f*ck a goat?”
  3. “If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the goat you’re with.”

• [Chris Topher]

  I do not find the fact that the ears seem to have been crudely modified and cut off to add to any sort of  beauty and in fact I find it barbaric.  Its the ugliness of man that is shown in this poor creature.

• [Head Junky]

  I will never look at the goats in my front yard the same again!

• [George Saad]

  So many goats, so little time :p

• [TheMudshark]

  I think I´m in love.

• [Cerdo Merol]

  mmm, totally looks like:  http://underground360.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/my_arbiter_drawing_by_darkdeepscars-d3bi7e8.jpg

• [Anna Loden]

  “Exotic”? Look, I could get used to the oviraptor nose, if it weren’t for the undershot jaw. How can she eat? Goats like to stick their noses into things–she could just about bruise hers. I’m sorry, but aesthetics aside, I think this is a pretty serious design flaw.

• [PjlLghtHouse]

  tis one “beautiful” goat, NOT!

• [OVERLOAD11]

  I hear the winner becomes the new leader of al queda’s sex slave