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 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.
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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.
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