Identifying Sheep By Nose-Prints
At Ondershepoort, South Africa's famous animal research station near Pretoria, experts are working out a system of "finger printing" sheep. It has been discovered that a sheep's nose has a pattern just like the human finger. As in the case of human beings, no two sheep noses give the same print. If the animal's nose is smeared with ink, and a special strip of paper then applied, an impression is gained that is invaluable in distinguishing one sheep from another. And now the experts are classifying the various patterns of "nose prints" to make it clear for these to be traced. Farmers expect considerable help from this new system of identification in the battle against stock theft.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 54, 21 October 1949, Page 6
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121Identifying Sheep By Nose-Prints Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 54, 21 October 1949, Page 6
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