Why sheep's and goats always bend their head and go?
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A youth project involving sheep can be a wonderful experience for a young person as well as their family. The project teaches that dedication and hard work is rewarded. Having an understanding of sheep behavior can greatly add to the success of the project by allowing the young person and their family to realize that the sheep reacts the way it does because of instinct. By accepting these instincts and using them to your advantage a great deal of stress both to the animal and the people can be avoided. Lets look briefly at some basic facts about sheep.
Sheep are Not Stupid
Contrary to what you may have heard or even expressed yourself, sheep are not stupid. They rank just below the pig and on par with cattle in intelligence among farm animals. Sheep react to the situations they are placed in according to instincts that have been developed over centuries. While it can be argued that domestication has decreased their instinctive behavior, they still show them in many ways, sometimes daily.
Sheep will Run From What Frightens Them
In the overall scheme of things sheep are grazers, which means that before domestication, they obtained their entire feed supply by grazing grass and shrubs. At that time their only means of survival was to run from danger and to band together in large numbers for protection.
Sheep are Gregarious
By gregarious, we mean that sheep band together and pretty much stay together when grazing etc. This isn't because they particularly like each other, although they are social animals, but rather for protection. This instinct is stronger in fine wooled sheep such as the Rambouillet and decreased in black faced sheep like the Suffolk, but it is there to some degree in all sheep.
Even with domestication, sheep retain these defense mechanisms, they run from perceived danger, and they band together for protection. Exploitation of these instincts is what makes the Border Collie so valuable a worker. Sheep see the dog as a predator, or danger, so they band together for protection and move away from the danger. By controlling the dog, a shepherd actually controls the flock.
Sheep will Follow Each Other
You've heard the expression, "Get one to go and they will all go." This means that if one sheep will move then the entire flock will follow. This is because of their gregarious instinct, the desire to stay together for protection.
Sheep will Move Toward Another Sheep or Friend
Again, because of their instinct to stay close together sheep will move toward another sheep or a perceived friend. Often times a friend can be a person, particularly if the person feeds the sheep. By using this instinct, shepherds have controlled sheep movement for centuries. In this case the sheep will follow other sheep that are actually moving to see a friend (the shepherd who feeds them). By exploiting this instinct, the shepherd can move sheep from the barn to the pasture. The secret is to allow the sheep that come to you to actually eat grain or they will soon figure out that they are being fooled and will not respond.
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A 2001 study by Keith Kendrick, who is now at the University of Electronic Science and Technology in China, found that they can recognise and remember at least 50 individual faces for more than 2 years. That is longer than many humans.
In the study, Kendrick's team trained sheep to distinguish between 25 pairs of sheep, by associating one member of each pair with a food reward.
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