That song is Cabra da Peste, English sub-title G.O.A.T., a research-to-song original by WELI. It was commissioned to open the Encontro Anual de Etologia 2024, the annual meeting of the Sociedade Brasileira de Etologia, the Brazilian Ethology Society. The meeting's theme was Path Forward in Animal Behaviour Communication, and WELI was invited to speak on the role of creativity in ethology, under the banner Creativity and science unifying communities. He answered with music.
The answer fits his own record. Before the kangaroo PhD that later won Dance Your PhD, WELI studied goats for his Honours thesis in Brazil. Cabra da Peste carries that earlier science back into the room where it began, now as a chorus.
Commission
A grant from ACT Science Week in Australia funded the work: an Australian agency paying for a song to open a Brazilian science conference. The brief was creativity in ethology, and the result is research turned into a song.
Song
Cabra da Peste is a Latin-pop original, sung in Portuguese under the English sub-title G.O.A.T. It works through an interconnected narrative rather than a single hook. Its threads, female goat dominance, female empowerment and Brazilian rural culture, are braided so the animal and the metaphor pull in the same direction. In Brazilian usage, cabra da peste names a tough, formidable person. The goat is both the subject and the figure of speech.
Roots
The dominance at the centre of the song comes from the Honours research WELI did on goats in Brazil, years before the kangaroo study and on a separate animal. The recording closes that loop in person: it features the special participation of his Honours supervisor in Brazil, the scientist who oversaw the original research, now on the track that grew out of it.
Reach
The song was released around December 2024 and sits on Spotify, where the embed above plays it. That is the public footprint so far. The first audience that mattered was the conference hall: scientists asked to open their year with a song about the animal some of them study.
Why
Most conferences open with a keynote. This one opened with a chorus, and the choice was the point. It is the method the studio uses across its catalogue: take a finding from science, find the cultural form that already moves people, and let the science travel inside it. Here the finding was female goat dominance, the form was Latin pop, and the audience was the field that produced the research.
Limits
The detail here traces to the studio's own project site and the track itself, not to independent coverage. We have not seen audience numbers, a recording of the opening, or third-party reviews, so this piece does not claim how the room responded. What is documented is the commission, the funding, the science behind the lyrics and the supervisor's part on the record. The rest is left for sources that can be checked.