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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the yes-we-baaah dept.

Sheep have been trained to recognize human faces, such as that of Baaahrack Obama:

Sheep have demonstrated the ability to recognise familiar human faces, according to a study. Cambridge University researchers were able to train sheep to identify the faces of actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Emma Watson, former US President Barack Obama and BBC newsreader Fiona Bruce. After training, the sheep chose photos of familiar faces over unfamiliar ones significantly more often than not.

It shows that sheep possess similar face recognition abilities to primates. Previous studies had shown that sheep could identify other sheep and human handlers that they already knew.

"What we did is ask whether a sheep could learn to recognise someone from a photograph," the study's lead author Prof Jenny Morton said. "We focused on whether or not an animal was capable of processing a two-dimensional object as a person."

Sheep recognize familiar and unfamiliar human faces from two-dimensional images (open, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171228) (DX)


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:27PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:27PM (#594207)

    How else could they recognize the Dear Leader?!

    Wake up, SHEEEEEPLE!!!!1111

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:14PM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:14PM (#594241) Journal

    Needless to say, leaders do not have much confidence in sheeple capabilities, so they usually get sheeple to move to one side by putting barking dogs on the other.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:44PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:44PM (#594255) Journal

    https://www.xkcd.com/1013/ [xkcd.com] - Do not invoke the wrath of the Sheeple.

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