(lovely joyful music)
- This is Ruth, a Nigerian Dwarf goat kid.
She was named after supreme court justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Her friend Sonia is a Mini Nubian goat kid.
They live at the Oregon zoo's family farm
with the rest of the herd.
- Wait, tiny goat poops!
Whoa. - And sometimes
they meet the other animals.
- Today we're gonna go visit a real live Chupacabra.
(haunting violin)
(group chatting)
- So normally I wouldn't be interested in taking goats
to go see an animal famed for drinking goat blood.
But, I happen to know this little Chupacabra
and he's very sweet.
So I think that we might even
have a little friendship in the making.
(rhythmic techno)
(laughing)
- I like when they like, get it in them,
they got somewhere to go.
So Ruth and Sonia have a team of keepers
that take care of them here at the family farm.
There is myself, and also Kat and Jen.
I am the cool aunt, for sure,
because I definitely let them have a lot of fun
but then when mom and dad are around, I'm like
you guys gotta play by the rules.
- I would back up that Brianne is the cool aunt
and I guess that I am the mother.
I definitely have some eyes in the back of my head.
- I love to talk to and converse with all of my animals
especially my goats, I love to sing to them.
They actually seem to really like Frank Sinatra
which is interesting.
I didn't know they had preferences.
- Are you guys ready to go?
Come on, let's go for a walk.
- When the goats meet Chupa, actually this is one animal
that we'll have to watch Chupa, and not the goats
because the goats have horns and they might use them.
Luckily the space that we're gonna be meeting today
is a huge space, so he'll have a lot of room
to run away if he ever feels uncomfortable.
- Oh, Sonia noticed him.
What, oh, now everybody noticed him.
(quick rhythmic techno)
Hey, what's goin on, he's so excited.
- Oh my goodness, Sonia's like "What is happening?"
(light airy piano)
- I think the encounter with Chupa was really exciting
because it was an animal that the goats
could get face to face with.
And even Ruth got up really close at the end
and they got to smell each other.
You gonna come over and look?
Oh look at this
- Now they're like, "what?"
- Chupa got so excited that you felt he was gonna
run and dart around and then it turned into little spronks.
- Yeah, so the goats have something
maybe to be a little jealous of.
'Cause they can't spronk, but they're still pretty cute, so.
- Next time, on tiny goat visits.
- Those are some tall goats.
She's definitely excited, her little mo hawk's up.
- Yeah (laughs)