{"id":42360,"date":"2015-12-04T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=42360"},"modified":"2015-12-01T14:58:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:58:26","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-can-a-sheep-say-they-never-forget-a-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-can-a-sheep-say-they-never-forget-a-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Can a Sheep Say They Never Forget a Face?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/recycled-glass-sheep-night-light?source=blog_uk120415\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42364 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/uk_120415.jpg\" alt=\"Recycled Glass Sheep Night Light | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"586\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a refrain uttered at many a cocktail party: \u201cOh, sorry, buddy I\u2019m terrible with names; great at faces, though!\u201d This might make Jim? Bill? Bob? Steve? feel a little unappreciated, but it is technically true. Humans can recognize hundreds, if not thousands of individual faces. Sheep, however? They may not fare as well at a high school reunion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Studies have shown that sheep can only recognize the individual faces of up to 50 sheep. While their <a title=\"Face Perception - Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Face_perception\" target=\"_blank\">facial recognition skills<\/a> are rather sophisticated compared to other animals, what if a sheep wants to see the world? Go to college? Start a 51-sheep dance troupe? Could get tricky. A team of British scientists <a title=\"Study Shows Sheep Have Keen Memory for Faces - Scientific American\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/study-shows-sheep-have-ke\/\" target=\"_blank\">put sheep\u2019s memory to the test<\/a> by showing them 25 pairs of sheep faces, with one out of each pair being associated with a food reward. After about 30 trials, sheep were about to correctly recognize the food-related faces 80% of the time. In the following weeks, sheep were shown photos of the same sheep, only this time the photos were of their profiles, rather than head-on shots. Sheep were still able to recognize the food-related sheep, even though they\u2019d never seen them from that perspective before. However, these memories eventually began to fade and after 600-800 days, their recognition levels began to decline.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re going to upset a sheep, maybe wait a solid 800 days to come around again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Recycled Glass Sheep Night Light\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/recycled-glass-sheep-night-light?source=blog_uk120415\" target=\"_blank\">Recycled Glass Sheep Night Light<\/a> | $38.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not pulling the wool over your eyes: their facial recognition skills are rather sophisticated compared to other animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":42400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1839,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42360"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42397,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42360\/revisions\/42397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}