Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Sheep Detectives

A apropos the ovine intelligence post, I was interested to read a review of a book, translated from the German, featuring sheep as detectives. It is a murder mystery involving a shepherd and his sheep where the shepherd is found murdered and his sheep come together to track down the murderer.

And why not? I have already explained that we are more intelligent than you might imagine, so why not sheep detectives? In my previous post I spoke of our ability to see in colour and our memory for faces. The other advantage we have over human detectives is our sense of smell and it is this facility that helps the sheep in this story to solve the mystery in Thee Bags Full.

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