Next, researchers paired a celebrity mug, like Gyllenhaal’s now-familiar face, with an unfamiliar person. By the end of this experiment, the sheep chose a familiar celebrity’s face over a ...

All eyes on ewe: Sharp-eyed sheep can tell the difference between photos of Barack Obama and a random person's face. Sheep recognize human faces from photos, says Cambridge study - CNET X ...

Clever sheep “That’s way more often than by chance,” says lead author Jenny Morton of the University of Cambridge, UK. “With the angled face, the percentage drop in recognition was the ...

Many other animals are known to recognise the faces among their own species, while some - including macaques, horses, dogs, mockingbirds, and sheep- can identify individuals from other species too.