Sheep more intelligent than previously thought
Most shepherds already knew this, but there is now scientific proof that sheep aren’t stupid. This New Scientist article details research at the University of Cambridge. The researchers discovered the intelligence of sheep by accident — while trying to measure the effects of Huntington’s Disease in sheep afflicted with the genetic disease, they needed a baseline for those unaffected by the disease’s neurological symptoms. The sheep could discriminate between different colors and shapes of buckets and even “mastered a subtler game in which the food was still in one of the buckets but the clue to its location was the colour of a cone placed nearby, not the colour of the bucket itself.” The article adds: It really is about time we stopped making fun of sheep. They can not only recognise each other’s faces, especially sheep they are socially […]