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11-09-2017, 06:39 AM
Sheep trained to recognize Jake Gyllenhaal, for science
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Sheep can be trained to recognize celebrities like Barack Obama and Jake Gyllenhaal, new research shows.*
A University of Cambridge study (http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171228) found that sheep can learn to recognize human faces. The results were published Wednesday in the Royal Society's Open Science journal as part of research looking into cognitive ability and neurodegenerative disorders, like Huntington's disease, which can impair people's ability to recognize facial emotion.
SEE ALSO: Flock of 1,000 rambunctious sheep cause hilarious traffic jam (http://mashable.com/2017/11/07/sheep-traffic-jam-utah/)
Researchers consider facial recognition as one of the most important human social skills. Sheep are known for their sociability, but this showed — with some training — the sheep could not only recognize fellow sheep and humans they knew, but process images of faces. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/sheep-facial-recognition-study/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Sheep can be trained to recognize celebrities like Barack Obama and Jake Gyllenhaal, new research shows.*
A University of Cambridge study (http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171228) found that sheep can learn to recognize human faces. The results were published Wednesday in the Royal Society's Open Science journal as part of research looking into cognitive ability and neurodegenerative disorders, like Huntington's disease, which can impair people's ability to recognize facial emotion.
SEE ALSO: Flock of 1,000 rambunctious sheep cause hilarious traffic jam (http://mashable.com/2017/11/07/sheep-traffic-jam-utah/)
Researchers consider facial recognition as one of the most important human social skills. Sheep are known for their sociability, but this showed — with some training — the sheep could not only recognize fellow sheep and humans they knew, but process images of faces. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/sheep-facial-recognition-study/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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