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Sheep Can Recognize Human Faces

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

takyon writes:

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 Justin Case on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:38PM (6 children)

    by Justin Case (4239) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:38PM (#594212) Journal

    OK so they can recognize someone they've seen before, but will their testimony be admitted at the rape trial?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:43PM (3 children)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:43PM (#594215)

    Triggered [youtube.com].

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:53PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:53PM (#594224) Journal

      I wish I could mod you funny.

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    • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:41PM (1 child)

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:41PM (#594251) Homepage Journal

      When one of them wears a mask, it's not good, it's scary, it's a problem, right? Now imagine 200 of them in masks, dressed all in black. It's a big, big problem. This is why we need some form of punishment against DisruptJ20.

      • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday November 08 2017, @10:17PM

        by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @10:17PM (#594272)

        Or better leadership. After all, the only thing that stops 200 sheep dressed in black, wearing skull masks is a shepherd dressed in black with a skull mask. And possibly a dog similarly attired.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @08:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @08:04PM (#594227)

    Why so curious?

  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday November 08 2017, @10:08PM

    by stretch611 (6199) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @10:08PM (#594263)

    Are you starting to worry? ;)

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