We are highly intelligent, gentle, sensitive and loving. We feel joy and pain. We can see in colour and remember your face. We have many things in common with humans and have individual personalities.
Studies by Keith Kendrick, a professor of physics at Gresham College in London, found sheep can distinguish between different expressions in humans and can detect changes in the faces of anxious sheep. He also discovered that sheep recognize the faces of at least 50 other sheep and can remember 50 images for up to two years.
Professor John Webster of the University of Bristol found that, like humans, sheep visibly express emotions. When they experience stress or isolation, they show signs of depression similar to those humans show by hanging their heads and avoiding positive actions.
Like us, sheep experience fear when they are separated from their social groups or approached by strangers. Sheep heart rates have been found to increase by 20 beats per minute when they are unable to see any members of their flock and by 84 beats per minute when approached by a man and a dog.
Sheep and lambs can be affectionate, playful and puppy-like, wagging their tails when stroked. They are intelligent, social, emotional beings—just as humans are—the meat and wool industries continue to abuse them in ways that would warrant cruelty charges if dogs or cats were the victims.
When they are still lambs, sheep are subjected to mulesing, a cruel mutilation in which farmers carve skin and flesh from the animals' backsides, often without giving them any painkillers. When the sheep begin to produce less wool, millions each year are loaded onto extremely crowded, multitiered cargo ships and exported to Muslim markets where their throats are cut while they are still conscious.
Please, for the animals' sake, don't buy wool, or eat lamb or mutton. Help stop the cruelty and killing by your personal actions and through organisations like www.animalsaustralia.org
Sheep and lambs can be affectionate, playful and puppy-like, wagging their tails when stroked. They are intelligent, social, emotional beings—just as humans are—the meat and wool industries continue to abuse them in ways that would warrant cruelty charges if dogs or cats were the victims.
When they are still lambs, sheep are subjected to mulesing, a cruel mutilation in which farmers carve skin and flesh from the animals' backsides, often without giving them any painkillers. When the sheep begin to produce less wool, millions each year are loaded onto extremely crowded, multitiered cargo ships and exported to Muslim markets where their throats are cut while they are still conscious.
Please, for the animals' sake, don't buy wool, or eat lamb or mutton. Help stop the cruelty and killing by your personal actions and through organisations like www.animalsaustralia.org
