Being human is overrated, right? All that capitalism and television just grows tiresome after a while. A goat, now there’s an animal that has got it all figured out.

Just ask Thomas Thwaites, he spent three days in the Swiss Alps goating around to try and figure out their behaviour.

It sounds a bit like method acting, except it’s method research, because observing goats simply wasn’t good enough. Thomas used special prosthetic limbs that enabled him to move around on all fours easily. At one stage the designer was even considering having a fake stomach fitted to let him eat grass.

Thomas told Mashable “My goal was to take a holiday from the pain and worry of being a self-conscious being, able to regret the past and worry about the future.” Which begs the question, did he have an off but for his mind?

Thomas is a conceptual designer interested in how humans will use technology to fulfil their desires. It turns out that he couldn’t goat as well as the other goats. He told Motherboard: “I was able to keep up for maybe a kilometre or so on this migration down the side of this kind of rocky mountain, and then they just left me in the dust.

“So I spent the rest of the day trying to catch up to them and eventually I found them again, and it was quite nice, in the actual soft grassy pasture bit.

“But actually heading down the mountain was petrifying. Because if I fell I didn’t have any hands to stop me from hitting a rock.”

Quite what the goats were thinking at the sight of this human following them around and sticking his bum in the air is anyone’s guess. It would make a good book, that’s for sure. Wait, there is one, it’s called ‘GoatMan; How I Took a Holiday from Being Human’.

Madness. There’s only one thing for it. Throw us your best goat puns, top comment gets to come to helloU headquarters and pretend to be human for a day, we’ve been trying and failing at it for years.