You always hear of the concept of counting sheep jumping over a fence in order to help put yourself to sleep, but... as a city-person with little exposure to sheep, I'm wondering if real sheep evidence anything even remotely resembling this capability... or of even having a bouncy gait (a la many cartoons). Peripheral question I guess would be, anyone know where in the world that concept came from, particularly if sheep don't have a spring in their step to begin with?
2006-07-25 19:35:47 · 6 answers · asked by dishi 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
If you ever get a chance to see lambs running around, they can literally Bounce. Its the funniest thing to see. They look like Peppy La Pew in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. Now where the counting came from I don't know , but if ya think about it, Shepard's had to count them all the time to see if any ran off(they are really dumb) and maybe that put them to sleep first "?"
2006-07-25 19:44:14 · answer #1 · answered by Cosmo 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
im an aussie, and we have sheep stations 2 times the size of singapore here. when i wuz a little girl, most of our friends lived on farms, and the way we would count sheep was by making them jump a fence 1 at a time, so, yeah, sheep can jump
2006-07-26 02:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by Andalusian Lover 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sheep can jump very high, and don't forget they often live in the mountains, well when they were wild, so yes they can jump high, and also they do jump over fences, and if you do count sheep you probably will fall asleep.
2006-07-26 02:40:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give them a trampoline and watch them!
2006-07-26 02:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by Dorothy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep!
2006-07-26 02:37:40 · answer #5 · answered by Audio God™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not white ones, no.
2006-07-26 02:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by vinny_the_hack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋