Sheep are smarter than you might think

Strange | 207586 hits | Feb 10 12:53 pm | Posted by: Curtman

Sheep arenï¿½t nearly as dumb as they look, a groundbreaking study by a Cambridge University neurobiologist has found.

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by Anonymous
Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:25 pm
In fact, Dr. Jennifer Morton?s seven Welsh Mountain sheep could not only do all the increasingly complicated ?executive decision-making? thrown at them, they can remember faces of people and of other sheep ? even from photographs.

?I?m now a big fan of sheep,? Morton told the Star on Thursday. ?Sheep live in a flock, and in a flock they?re rather silly. When you work with them as individuals, they behave very differently.?

?I knew nothing about sheep,? Morton admitted. ?I didn?t think we would be able to do it. I had misapprehensions about sheep.?

Your average farm sheep, said Morton ?have very boring lives. They have to forage for food and look out for predators. If you spend all day looking for food, there?s not a lot of time to do anything else.?

Treated as individuals, protected from predators, and amply fed without foraging, sheep ?love doing experiments. They?re very enthusiastic.?

?Even my sheep, when they?re together, they?re very silly.?

That's fascinating work they're doing at Cambridge University. I'm glad someone is finally solving the riddles that have plagued mankind all these years.
by Brenda
Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:48 pm
Your average farm sheep, said Morton ï¿½have very boring lives. They have to forage for food and look out for predators. If you spend all day looking for food, thereï¿½s not a lot of time to do anything else.ï¿½

Treated as individuals, protected from predators, and amply fed without foraging, sheep ï¿½love doing experiments. Theyï¿½re very enthusiastic.ï¿½

No shit Sherlock!
I think that goes for most animals, including man.
Very boring lives, going to work, buy food, look out to not be killed in traffic. But once food is being made for us and we are being entertained, we are very enthusiastic!
by Proculation
Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:59 pm
Oh so the leftwingers are more intelligent than we tought ??

It was a joke !!!
by raydan
Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:48 am
Your average farm sheep, said Morton ï¿½have very boring lives. They have to forage for food and look out for predators. If you spend all day looking for food, thereï¿½s not a lot of time to do anything else.ï¿½

Treated as individuals, protected from predators, and amply fed without foraging, sheep ï¿½love doing experiments. Theyï¿½re very enthusiastic.ï¿½

Ask any of our CKA sheep lovers... they'll confirm this.
by Gunnair
Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:04 am
"raydan" said
Your average farm sheep, said Morton ï¿½have very boring lives. They have to forage for food and look out for predators. If you spend all day looking for food, thereï¿½s not a lot of time to do anything else.ï¿½

Treated as individuals, protected from predators, and amply fed without foraging, sheep ï¿½love doing experiments. Theyï¿½re very enthusiastic.ï¿½

Ask any of our CKA sheep lovers... they'll confirm this.

Sheep may be smart, but the ain't smart enough to avoid Campbells riding around in spooky 70's vans offering free Kentucky bluegrass to the sheep that come inside to get it.
by ShepherdsDog
Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:13 am
They know that they'll end up as food if they get too close to a Campbell. All a MacDonald will do to them, is give them ugly offspring.
by PublicAnimalNo9
Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:21 pm
I'm highly disappointed. It took 4 posts before the sheep shagging jokes started.
Then again, I guess it's just too easy with this one

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