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Weirdest thing I ever saw was about 12 sheep on the hill opposite my window stood in a perfect circle, facing each other... wierd...
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A RECORD 227 paranormal events have shaken Britain in the past 12 months, a study reveals today. ...
BLANDFORD FORUM: A flock of spectral sheep is often seen or heard at Sheep Market Hill and horses are heard, but not seen, pulling a carriage at Ashley Wood golf club. There were reports of both happenings in May. ...
lordmongrove said:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cannabis-munching-sheep-left-high-kite-4455124?ICID=FB_mirror_main
Sheep scoff cannabis
Do sheep-shaggers choose the sheep or do the sheep choose them?
Sheep can be trained to recognise human faces from photographic portraits - and can even identify the picture of their handler without prior training - according to new research from scientists at the University of Cambridge.
The study, published today in the journal Royal Society: Open Science, is part a series of tests given to the sheep to monitor their cognitive abilities. Because of the relatively large size of their brains and their longevity, sheep are a good animal model for studying neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington's disease.
The ability to recognise faces is one of the most important human social skills. We recognise familiar faces easily, and can identify unfamiliar faces from repeatedly presented images. As with some other animals such as dogs and monkeys, sheep are social animals that can recognise other sheep as well as familiar humans. Little is known, however, about their overall ability to process faces.
Researchers from Cambridge's Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience trained eight sheep to recognise the faces of four celebrities from photographic portraits displayed on computer screens.
Training involved the sheep making decisions as they moved around a specially-designed pen. At one end of the pen, they would see two photographs displayed on two computer screens and would receive a reward of food for choosing the photograph of the celebrity (by breaking an infrared beam near the screen); if they chose the wrong photograph, a buzzer would sound and they would receive no reward. Over time, they learn to associate a reward with the celebrity's photograph.
After training, the sheep were shown two photograph - the celebrity's face and another face. In this test, sheep correctly chose the learned celebrity face eight times out of ten. ...
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-sheep-human.html
Over time, they learn to associate a reward with the celebrity's photograph.
There aren't many VTOL drones around that could do that. Most drones are just too small. The few big ones are pretty experimental.Weird sideline in the latest FT: sheep in Southern Norway are disappearing, and because there are no physical effects seen, no broken fences or blood, it's been theorised that drones are picking them up and spiriting them away because fish hooks have been found in some of the wool of those that remain. Any more on this, anyone?
There aren't many VTOL drones around that could do that. Most drones are just too small. The few big ones are pretty experimental.
There aren't many VTOL drones around that could do that. Most drones are just too small. The few big ones are pretty experimental.
Weird sideline in the latest FT: sheep in Southern Norway are disappearing, and because there are no physical effects seen, no broken fences or blood, it's been theorised that drones are picking them up and spiriting them away because fish hooks have been found in some of the wool of those that remain. Any more on this, anyone?
Excellent detective work as ever, Enola. So we can forget about the drones - it sounds like more ordinary sheep rustling, though the fish hooks angle remains strange. What's the benefit there?
Sheep 'fishing' worries farmers
Brutal sheep thieves are believed to be trying to catch animals in western Norway with fishing hooks, in a practice that has been dubbed ‘sheep fishing' and which is causing concern in farming communities.
The problem came to light after a number of sheep in Skånevikfjord, between Stavanger and Bergen, were found with hooks in their fleece, newspaper Verdens Gang (VG) reported. A dead lamb was also found without its thighs. Farmer Olaf Sævareid said he didn’t know how many sheep had gone out of his flock of several hundred, but that his neighbour was also missing 7 or 8 ewes.
“I noticed the same thing last year, that they disappeared without trace. They came home from the mountain, then disappeared,” the farmer said.
Police say they believe the sheep are being stolen to be slaughtered.
I heard a joke similar to that, it ended with the city man finally asking the farmer "I just have to ask, why has has your amazing trick performing sheep only got three legs?" ... "Well if you had a sheep as good as this un, would you eat it all at once?".. (sorry, you've just reminded me)Predictably, can't find it to quote it now, but I found an account in the early 19thC newspapers, of a man sentenced to death - for stealing not a whole sheep but just its leg. He was so hungry, he just cut off one leg of a live sheep, to eat. I have tried running all kinds of weird searches just now but can no longer find it, but it's somewhere in the database!
Predictably, can't find it to quote it now, but I found an account in the early 19thC newspapers, of a man sentenced to death - for stealing not a whole sheep but just its leg. He was so hungry, he just cut off one leg of a live sheep, to eat. I have tried running all kinds of weird searches just now but can no longer find it, but it's somewhere in the database!
I heard a joke similar to that, it ended with the city man finally asking the farmer "I just have to ask, why has has your amazing trick performing sheep only got three legs?" ... "Well if you had a sheep as good as this un, would you eat it all at once?".. (sorry, you've just reminded me)