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John Metcalfe, Bay Area News Group features writer
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What do you call a goat on a hill?

A hillbilly.

When your dad’s laughter has subsided, please enjoy this video of what can only be called a tsunami of goats pouring down a road in the Berkeley Hills. The video was taken July 11 and shared by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy research facility just east the UC Berkeley campus. The lab uses goats to clear vegetation from the hills, which otherwise could become a tinderbox for urban wildfires.

“Baaa-d traffic alert! Our #goats are on the move once again in their fire mitigation efforts around our Lab,” the facility posted on Facebook. If you can guess the number of goats in the parade, the lab will give you a free cyclotron. (Just kidding.)

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