Herd of goats invades Wales town as residents stay in due to coronavirus

A herd of wild Kashmiri goats has taken over an otherwise unoccupied town center in Wales amid the U.K.’s ongoing lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The herd of about 122 goats usually wanders into the coastal northern town of Llandudno from the Great Orme, a limestone headland northwest of the town, but in the absence of people, they have remained in town and grazed on local vegetation and flowers, the BBC reported.

“They are curious, goats are, and I think they are wondering what’s going on like everybody else,” town councilor Carol Marubbi said.

Monday goat update: they’re back. Again. And they dgaf. (H/t @86_leroy) pic.twitter.com/KoUmv08y59

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Marubbi added that the townspeople were “very proud” of the goats, who had provided “free entertainment” to residents watching from their windows. “There are very few visitors on the top [of the Orme], so they have come down in their droves,” she added. “There isn’t anyone else around so they probably decided they may as well take over.”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who later tested positive for the virus himself, announced the countrywide lockdown last week, barring residents from leaving their homes except for essential shopping, going to work if “absolutely necessary,” medical needs or one form of exercise a day.

The time has now come for us all to do more. From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction: You must stay at home,” he said last Monday.