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a fluffy follower with rectangular pupils, near-360° vision, and a memory longer than your last ex.
means A woolly, hoofed domestic mammal kept for its fleece, meat, and milk, and proverbially known for following the flock.
from From Old English 'scēap' (also 'scǣp'), a West Germanic word — compare Dutch 'schaap' and German 'Schaf' — that has named the animal for well over a thousand years. Curiously, English kept 'sheep' identical in singular and plural, a relic of an old neuter noun class that didn't bother changing its ending. The animal's name stayed Germanic even after the Norman conquest handed us French-derived 'mutton' for the meat on the plate — peasants tended the 'sheep,' nobles ate the 'mutton.'
- face memory
- Recognize 50 sheep faces for two years.
- eye shape
- Horizontal rectangular pupils for panoramic predator detection.
- emotional read
- Distinguish smiling from angry human faces.
- never alone
- Isolation causes severe stress; flocks are survival.
- wool overload
- Unsheared sheep grew 35 kilos of fleece.
dolly the sheep — first cloned mammal, created in scotland in 1996
merino sheep — prized breed producing finest wool, originated in spain, now dominant in australia
jacob sheep — multi-horned breed with distinctive spotted fleece, documented in middle east for centuries
texel sheep — dutch breed, one of most exported meat sheep breeds globally