Here's a fun article in praise of the humble and much-maligned sheep. Apparently, they are not as daft as we are taught to think, and indeed perform quite well on memory and intelligence tests.
I longed to find documentary (or at least video) evidence of those Marsden sheep rolling across cattle grids, but failed miserably, so I am not sure whether this is a spurious anecdote or not. However, I did find plenty of evidence of sheep crossing cattle grids just by stepping between the bars, no problem at all (e.g. here and here).
There again, there is also video of a cow crossing a cattle grid in the same way, so are we to re-consider the intellectual prowess of cattle?
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