When we think about intelligent animals, farm species aren’t usually the first to spring to mind. We may picture tool-using ...

The Parable of the Sheep and Goats is found in Matthew 25:31-46. those who have lived good lives and believed in God will be put on one side and have a place in Heaven those who have rejected the ...

In a separate study, the researchers also found that goats performed better than sheep and alpacas in another task that ...

The Zagros mountains, in Western Iran, stretch for nearly 1,000 miles, from the sands of the Persian Gulf northwest along the modern border with Iraq and Turkey, separating the plains of ...

County fairs are a little like beauty pageants for animals. The way we selectively breed goats and sheep has shaped the course of their evolution. When I moved to Minnesota from Denver ...

But my recent research suggests that sheep, goats and alpacas—staples of the barnyard—deserve more credit. In two separate studies, I tested how these animals learn, remember and make sense of ...

Most of the world’s more than 2 billion sheep and goats are grazed on range in countries such as Australia and New Zealand. Farmers in the United States raised nearly 5.02 million sheep and 2.51 ...