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Face it: Sheep are just like us when it comes to recognizing people

In facial-recognition tests, the animals picked images of familiar faces over pictures of strangers

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DOUBLE TAKE  Scientists trained sheep to recognize pictures of celebrity faces, and showed that the animals have advanced, face-processing abilities similar to those of humans.

Kate Travis

By Mariah Quintanilla

- More than 2 years ago

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Emma Watson, Jake Gyllenhaal, journalist Fiona Bruce and Barack Obama all walk into a sheep pen.