Sheep love company, so being alone causes them distress. Researchers have found that sheep can remember the faces of 50 sheep pals for at least two years.
Dr Keith Kendrick at Cambridge also found that sheep prefer pictures of contented sheep and smiling humans, rather than stressed sheep and angry humans. He said that sheep “may have much richer emotional lives than we would give them credit for.”
Company is important for sheep. Image: Compassion/Martin Usborne
