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From the article you linked:

> While these barriers are usually effective for cattle,[23] they can fail due to ingenious animals. Sheep searching for food have been known to roll over grids, jump across them, step carefully into the spaces[24] or run along the side of grids as wide as 8 feet (2.4 m).

[24] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIbZWblPaA




The very next video youtube suggested shows two sheep, surrounded by lush green fields, climbing onto steep, wet rocks on a hillside in an attempt to reach some grass in the middle of the rocks. One of the sheep falls, presumably to its death or at least to a significant injury. They may be clever, but they seem... dumb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m2HJpGtv70


They may be clever, but they seem... dumb.

Not unlike us. There's a striking resemblence between that video and the many, many 'fail' videos featuring humans.


To be fair, one was a lamb which was just following the adult, and was still alive and healthy by the end of the video.


> One of the sheep falls, presumably to its death or at least to a significant injury. They may be clever, but they seem... dumb.

Nope. What it looks like is that the lamb fell, but was alive in the end. The mother chased down the hillside, and found it without injury.

I was surprised as well, but it looks like sheep can survive little tumbles like that.


That seems like human explorers. Some rech their goal and a lot of them die. I wouldn't call this dumb.


This is the missing link to goats


Thanks. I only included the wikipedia link for clarity due to the different terminology used across the world. But its interesting to know that what I saw is not as unusual as I thought.




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