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View submission: Why do sheep stare at us?
Different warming and cooling rates of tarmac certainly have an effect there, especially where there's shade from trees. There's a spot on the road across Dartmoor that's notorious for it.
The other thing I learned from riding around the Highlands was that lambs and their mothers will run towards each other when they feel threatened by things like wolves, sheepdogs or a CBR6, and they're usually on the opposite sides of the road so they meet in the middle.
Comment by bladefiddler at 27/01/2025 at 12:10 UTC
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Yeah, thankfully I learned from driving rather than riding that animals on one side of the road requires caution, but on both sides is a definite hazard to slow considerably for. Cows & calves do the same, but I learned that one the scary way when hiking to fishing spots... always skirt around the *whole herd*, even when they're half a field apart!
Having a similar fireblade derived lump in mine confirms the sheep stupidity. They're not bright enough to realise that the scary stuff stays on the hard black stuff, cos 'bitch, you DEFINITELY heard me coming!' lol