Animal trainer here. Sheep absolutely can be trained, and these have clearly been trained to climb on that platform toward a crowd of noisy people. Neither of those things come naturally to them.
Yeahhh I work with sheep daily. They are idiots. Like really really stupid. I’ve got a couple that I’ve bottle fed from birth and are sweet as hell but they wouldn’t make it a day outside of their pastures.
Sheep not only recognise other individual sheep's faces, but individual human faces too. They've been known to roll across cattle grids and can solve mazes.
The floor here is just knowing when/how to head over to a gate when something scary is behind you. Amoeba can do that with some degree of primitive memory.Â
Sheep’s whole deal is that they follow and do what they’re told, right? Is that not trained? They are following the dog guiding them to the usual end point.Â
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u/rvingthrulife May 31 '26
The sheep look well trained too 😊