Courtesy of Danielle Langloism, Wikipedia CCLAfrican Goat Muzzles
Basketry muzzles, seen here, are used on Ukara Island in northern Tanzania to keep goats from eating grasses or crops owned by someone else.
Ethnologist Lauren Simons says farm land is so precious in Ukara that goats wear the muzzles when being moved to water sources or to and from their grass huts to discourage them from grazing on the way.
Goats considered sacred are exempt from the muzzles. For example, if a witch doctor places the spirit of a departed ancestor in a goat, the animal is not muzzled. Bells, instead, are used to note that particular goat is sacred.
Do they keep goats out of rose bushes?