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Thread #73702   Message #1283709
Posted By: Bert
28-Sep-04 - 11:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Boring science stuff we all believe...
Subject: RE: BS: Boring science stuff we all believe...
Ha Brucie, your line about the sheep reminds me of a study that was done way back in the Fifties.

There were many farmers in England who were having problems with dogs worrying and killing sheep. So they decided that they would take a lamb and raise it with a litter of pups. The idea being that it would grow up to be unafraid of dogs and would then stand up to them if attacked.

All went well to start with and the lamb grew up thinking that it was a dog and would run around with it's foster litter mates behaving like a dog and even barking.

The moment of truth came when they released it into the herd of sheep and....

















....IT CHASED THE SHEEP!!!!