 SHEEP experience complex human emotions like love, scientists have discovered. Ewes fall in love with rams, sheep have best friends and they feel sad when members of the flock die or are slaughtered, studies have found. Electrodes were inserted into sheep's brains to measure activity when they were stimulated. Sheep were shown pictures of rams they were closely associated with or sheep in their group of "friends". Scientists at the Babraham Research Institute in Cambridge recorded the animals' brain activity when they were shown the pictures. Researchers say female sheep enjoy sex. But ewes forget their partners far more quickly than women. Helen Davies, secretary of the National Sheep Association Wales, has a flock of 10 Blue Faced Leicesters and 30 Suffolk sheep on her farm near Welshpool, Powys. "I can agree that some sheep form their own characteristics. Some are stubborn and some are obliging and do what you want," she said.. "I don't know whether they fall in love. But if you move the Blue Faced Leicesters around they get very upset. If you split one from the others they will bleat all night long." Professor Keith Kendrick, a neuroscientist who led the research, said sheep and human brains have a lot in common. The discoveries could have important implications for the way livestock is reared and treated on farms. Sheep have been found to experience complex human emotions and can recognise faces | 
