Is Your Sheep Stressed? Just Ask It! - Democratic Underground

matcom

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Wed Oct-22-03 10:34 AM
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Is Your Sheep Stressed? Just Ask It!

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stressed-out sheep bleat out their anguish, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

They found that, like humans, sheep communicate stress by changing the timbre of their voices.

Mark Feinstein of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, said his findings could help farmers and, of course, the sheep they herd.

An expert in bioacoustics, Feinstein did his work at Teagasc, an Irish government agricultural research organization.

He isolated sheep and separated lambs from their mothers as part of his experiments -- then recorded their bleats.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=2&u=/nm/20031022/od_nm/science_sheep_dc

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rwork

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Wed Oct-22-03 10:37 AM
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1. Do you do anything

on the sex life of common sea slugs? I enjoy your off beat posts.

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demnan

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Wed Oct-22-03 10:37 AM
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2. that was a cruel experiment

and I could have told him that animals express stress from listening to cats and dogs.

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Lars39

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Wed Oct-22-03 10:40 AM
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3. Sheez! Haven't they ever watched "Babe"?

Maa Maa. :silly:

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