The bucolic environment in which Larry Katz works would hardly be considered romantic. As we wander around the pens that house his herd of alpine goats at Rutgers University, flies swarm us, and our nostrils are filled with the pungent aromas of barnyard life. But if you're someone like Katz who studies goat mating, you'd best get used to the kinds of settings that bring out the animal in, well, animals. "You should smell this place during the breeding season," Katz says, when the pens reek with the odors of his libidinous test subjects, which engage in "an orgy of activity" around the end of autumn.












