Even when a celeb’s face was slightly tilted rather than face-on, the sheep still picked the image more often than not. That means the sheep were not just memorizing images, demonstrating for ...

Then, the researchers showed the sheep two different face photos and gave it a food reward for choosing the correct face it had learned before. The sheep chose the right face eight out of 10 times.

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.