Thursday, November 9, 2017

Sheep recognize faces

British researchers have found that sheep can recognize faces, including pictures of their shepherds.

Eight sheep were involved in training sessions, using computer pictures, and were able to make correct identifications more than 70 per cent of the time.

That’s about as good as humans, apes and monkeys.

They even tried tilting the pictures to the side and the sheep did as well as humans in that trial.


Eight Welsh Mountain sheep were used in the trials run by Franziska Knolle, Rita P. Goncalves and A. Jennifer Morton of Cambridge University. Their findings are published in the Royal Society of Open Science.