> Please accept my apologies. As you correctly noted, the paper linked here is

No need, I was just wondering if I was the only one to have clicked the link since the entire page just kept going on tangents about sheep when the link was about the study on climate change and I felt incapable of drawing any other conclusion. > >

> Going off-topic is not allowed on HN ?

I'm sure it is, and I'm guilty of it as well, but again I was just wondering if anyone bothered to click their link before dusting off their anecdotal stories about sheep's intelligence, or lack thereof.