That song is Cabra da Peste, an English sub-title of G.O.A.T., and the studio behind it calls it a research-to-song original by Dr 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 rather than slides.
The reason that answer fits is in the singer's 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, this time as a chorus.
Commission
A grant from ACT Science Week in Australia funded the work, an Australian agency paying for a song that would open a Brazilian science conference. The brief was creativity in ethology. The studio frames the result plainly, as research turned into a song rather than a talk about research.
Song
Cabra da Peste is sung in Portuguese and carries the English sub-title G.O.A.T. It is a Latin-pop original, and it works through an interconnected narrative rather than a single hook. The threads are female goat dominance, female empowerment and Brazilian rural culture, braided together 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 is not borrowed. It comes from the Honours research WELI did on goats in Brazil, work that ran 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 appearing 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 one in the conference hall, scientists asked to open their year not with findings on a screen but 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 real finding, 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 in the first place.
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 of the performance, 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.