Article: When looking sheepish counts as smart. (research on how areas of sheep's brain respond to pictures of different species)

When looking sheepish counts as smarts

What would happen if you met a sheep face-to-face in a darkalley, or a darkened room? More important, which area of the sheep's brain would respond? A British study, in which sheep were hung in slings in darkened rooms before a projector screen, tested the responses in the animals' brains to pictures of both friendly and menacing faces of a variety of species.

Scientists at the AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology andGenetics Research in Cambridge took counting sheep a step beyond the usual: They measured the electrical impulses given off by different areas of sheeps' brains when exposed to different visual stimuli. ...

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