Official: black sheep are more
intelligent than humans.
intelligent than humans.
After
a 2012 University of Cambridge study found that sheep could 'learn' to do
things as quickly as rodents, monkeys and humans, scientists now believe that a
particular French breed of black sheep has remarkable powers of perception.
Following
on from Cambridge neuroscientist Professor Jenny Morton’s findings that a mixed
flock were ‘quite intelligent animals – they seem to be able to recognize
people and even respond when you call their name‘ - Professor Jacques Lenoir of
Bordeaux University launched a fresh study into black sheep.
Six
black and six white sheep were given the choice of feeding from buckets that
were placed in front of eight cardboard figures. Four of these were well-known US
and UK politicians – Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton, David Cameron and Jeremy
Corbyn – and four were random members of the public.
While
the white sheep failed to discriminate between the figures, the black sheep all
refused to eat from the politicians’ buckets. “The extraordinary thing” said
Professor Lenoir, “was that when we removed the other figures, the sheep
preferred to go hungry rather than trust the politicians!”
Professeur
Lenoir believes that large black sheep
from the Languedoc region may possess unusual powers of perception, and plans
to carry out further research with cardboard cut-out journalists and bloggers.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358878/Far-farmyard-dunces-sheep-intelligent-think.html#ixzz44KIMq7Hv
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