{"id":2231,"date":"2025-03-11T15:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/goats-outsmart-sheep-and-alpacas\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:12:57","slug":"goats-outsmart-sheep-and-alpacas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/goats-outsmart-sheep-and-alpacas\/","title":{"rendered":"Goats outsmart sheep and alpacas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-11 15:12:56<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Goats are the smartest animals on the farm.<BR><br \/>\nIn a landmark study, scientists from the University of Aberystwyth assessed the ability of three animals &#8211; goats, sheep and alpacas &#8211; to process information.<BR><br \/>\nThe experts analysed their ability to understand that objects still exist when they are no longer visible, a useful skill for tracking herd members or predators.<BR><br \/>\nThe animals were tasked with finding objects hidden under cups and were given food treats if they answered correctly.<BR><br \/>\nIt was found that goats had the most success on the tasks, while the sheep and alpacas found it hard to track the items as the tests became increasingly complicated.<BR><br \/>\nMegan Quail, lead author of the research, said: &#8220;This study is the first to directly compare the cognitive abilities of several domesticated livestock species.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We found that goats demonstrated the greatest capacity to understand that objects still exist even when they are hidden &#8211; this could be linked to their need to be more selective in their eating habits.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It may also be a sign of goats&#8217; greater environmental awareness than sheep or alpacas.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-11 15:12:56 Goats are the smartest animals on the farm. In a landmark study, scientists from the University of Aberystwyth assessed the ability of three animals &#8211; goats, sheep and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}