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This abstract in no way disproves his claim. It actually supports it. If there were no environmental cues, a sheep would not be able to recognize her own baby from sight alone. I never changed the goalposts. It was always about the ability to recognize someone familiar by their individual facial features.
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... and which cues are these, pray tell? |
Anything other than the eyes could be a cue that could help the mother recgognize her baby. It could be the baby's baaa that distinguishes it from other sheep. It could be the baby's smell if that's how sheep identify (I'm not sure), or his unique gait could be a cue. I am not a sheep expert. The point I'm making is that there are other ways for the animal kingdom to identify it's kin other than sight. I recently saw a movie about penguins. They find their young in the middle of thousands and thousands of baby penguins by sound alone. |
But they used digital images of sheep, not sheep... and you knew this, because you remarked on it. You are not making a lot of sense right now. |
The cue would be the light and dark patterns that could (I'm not even sure
if it's even possible) let the sheep identify something familiar in the image. Maybe if it was a video of a sheep running, there might be some recognition that this is another sheep. I know my dog can distinguish between dogs and people. She never barks at people but she will bark at another dog. She also use to run up to the t.v. when she saw a group of animals running, but when she ran up to the screen and couldn't identify anything through her sense of smell, she just went back and layed down.