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Erika Hobart

Mustapha Elaboubi's goats stand on wooden platforms in an argan tree on the road from Marrakech to Essaouira. “They’re like mushrooms—they’re everywhere,” says Mohamed Elaamrani, a Marrakech-based tour guide, of his country's “flying goats.”

Miloud Banaaddi gave up farming because of severe drought in Morocco's southern Atlantic coast region and is training his eight goats to perch for tourist tips. “There are no jobs,” he says. “There are no other solutions.”

Goats like to eat argan fruit, with its thick peel and sweet-smelling pulpy flesh.

Khalid Benaddi, 13, uses a bag of grain to coax one of his family’s goats up an argan tree.

A pack of Beldis gather in the coastal city of Agadir, south of Tangier. Beldi, which means “from the countryside” in Darija, the Arabic dialect spoken in Morocco, is a catch-all term used to describe mixed-breed dogs native to the country.