10 Facts about sheep
Did you know, that sheep are very gentle animals?
- Sheep are herbivores, which means their diet does not include meat. They typically eat seeds, grass and plants鲁.
- Lambs walk just minutes after they are born, though they are still dependent on their mothers for the first four to six months of their lives鲁.
- Sheep can recognize up to 50 other sheep faces and remember them for two years虏. However, sheared sheep don鈥檛 recognize each other and may fight for a few days to re-establish hierarchy. Sheep can also recognize human faces.
- A sheep is much less likely to show obvious signs of pain than a domestic dog. This is believed to be the case because signs of weakness attract predators and sheep are a species that is preyed upon鈦.
- Like various other species, including humans, sheep make different vocalizations to communicate different emotions. They also display and recognize emotion by facial expressions and prefer a smile to a frown鈦.
- Most sheep have large, curling horns made out of keratin 鈥 the same element that's present in human fingernails鲁.
- Sheep are able to experience emotions such as fear, anger, rage, despair, boredom, disgust, and happiness鈦.
- Sheep are very gentle animals and were one of the first animals to be domesticated鹿.
- They build friendships, stick up for one another in fights, and feel sad when their friends are sent to slaughter鈦.
- Sheep have excellent peripheral vision. Their large, rectangular pupils allow them to see almost 360 degrees and they can also see behind themselves without turning their heads虏.
Resources
- http://www.veganpeace.com/animal_facts/Sheep.htm
- http://archive.pov.org/sweetgrass/sheep-facts/
- https://www.livescience.com/52755-sheep-facts.html
- http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170418-sheep-are-not-stupid-and-they-are-not-helpless-either
- https://www.ciwf.org.uk/media/3816923/stop-look-listen.pdf