Sheep Facts

Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.

Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures!

A 'geep' is a very rare goat-sheep hybrid or chimera.

Catgut comes from sheep not cats.

There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.

Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have horizontal, rectangular-shaped pupils that give them a nearly 360-degree field of vision.

A lost sheep named Chris wandered the Australian bush near Canberra for more than five years without being shorn. When RSPCA workers found him in 2015, his fleece had grown to more than 40 kilograms - enough wool for 30 sweaters. Champion shearer Ian Elkins needed 42 minutes to remove it. Chris survived, broke a Guinness World Record, and lived four more years.