Goats have outperformed sheep and alpacas in a series of cognitive tests, suggesting they’re the sharpest minds in the ...

1 of 9 Anna Doering and her sheep, Helen, at the Blue Earth County Fair. R. J. Kern’s book, The Sheep and the Goats, will be published in spring 2018 by Kehrer Verlag.

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 ...

We may picture tool-using primates or puzzle-solving crows. But my recent research suggests that sheep, goats and alpacas—staples of the barnyard—deserve more credit. In two separate studies ...