Sheep, unfairly branded as not very intelligent, have in the researchers of the Babraham Institute of the University of Cambridge the fierce defenders of a quality ignored until now: their physiognomistic insight.According to Nature, these animals can distinguish known congeners from 50 other sheep. It seems that the temporal and frontal lobe cells of these sheep are activated when they see the face of a sheep that is familiar to them, just as one person recognizes another.
For Keith Kendrick, director of the project, "this indicates that the sheep may miss fellow flock members who are no longer with them.
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