How many people can count goats as their work colleagues? Well, here at the Getty Center, our new temporary hires may not have high salaries, but at least they get free lunch all during the month of May.
Every spring the goats arrive to rid the surrounding slopes of fire-prone vegetation.
Turns out goats have a presence on the inside of the Getty too. Here’s one example where two medieval goats munch away ever so elegantly:
Northumberland Bestiary, English, about 1250 – 1260, Ms.100, fol. 14v det., J. Paul Getty Museum
