Man who lived as a goat wins Ig Nobel prize(Photos)

 A British man who lived as a goat for three days is among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes for scientific research.

Thomas Thwaites designed prosthetic limbs that allowed him to walk on all fours and graze with goats on a farm in the Alps.

He published his research in a book entitled GoatMan: How I Took A Holiday From Being Human and his work was recognised at the annual awards, a parody of the Nobel Prizes, which are given out for the most unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.

 Mr Thwaites, wearing his prosthetic limbs, said the award was a "huge honour" as he collected the prize at a ceremony at Harvard University in the US.

He said: "I got tired of all the worry and the pain of being a human and so I decided I would take a holiday from it all and become a goat."

 The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative .