Sheep

Sheep (Ovis aries) training protocol for voluntary awake and unrestrained structural brain MRI acquisitions

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive technique that requires the participant to be completely motionless. To date, MRI in awake and unrestrained animals has only been achieved with humans and dogs. For other species, alternative …

“BAA, BAA”: Can Sheep Talk to Each Other?

If you have ever been out to the countryside in the spring, you might have heard sheep bleating to their lambs. Sheep also bleat when they are separated from the flock or stressed in some other way. To us, all these bleats sound very similar. But do …

Maternal deprivation and milk replacement affect the integrity of gray and white matter in the developing lamb brain

The psychoendocrine evaluation of lamb development has demonstrated that maternal deprivation and milk replacement alters health, behavior, and endocrine profiles. While lambs are able to discriminate familiar and non-familiar conspecifics (mother or …

Sheep Voice fMRI

Investigating the sheep auditory cortex with fMRI

Sheep Cortex

See this poster on Figshare for some more details.