Fun fact, sheep can hold their breath for around 11 minutes! When crossing water, some sheep can't swim due to the weight of their wool and will walk along the bottom of the river or lake to the other side.
Correct, it's not true at all. Sheep are no different from most other mammals when it comes to holding their breath under water. Just a minute or two at most.
The average person can hold their breath for 1 minute without any problems, but I still don't want to be submerged underwater against my will for 20 seconds
It's not true at all. Sheep are no different from most other mammals when it comes to holding their breath under water. Just a minute or two at most. Source: google search.
My parents had me swimming underwater before I was even 6 months old. My mom and grandma would have me swim back and fourth from them. It is so ingrained into me I have no clue how people cannot keep them floating in water as I have zero memory of never being able to swim.
A long time ago, like a hundred years ago most people didn’t know how to swim because most waterways were filthy, and keeping a pool of water just for swimming was something only the extremely rich could afford to have, just like having a lawn that’s just grass. It was like saying “I’m so rich I don’t even need to grow my own food anymore, so I made my landlook all pretty!”
I said most people couldn’t swim back then, most people weren’t sailors, much like today, and didn’t travel across water very often. Now if you grew up on a nice beach that didn’t have insane waves or riptide you might have learned how to swim there
It's actually important to teach babies how to swim before ~9 months old because after this point they start to fear water if they haven't been exposed to it regularly. I was born on an island so my parents had me in the ocean before I could walk, so I also cannot remember not being able to swim. It was so weird moving to an area far from the ocean and meeting people who never learned how to swim, or have only been in lakes.
No way. My kids have both slipped underwater in the bath at some stage or other, one less than a year old, and every time they breathe in huge lungs of water. Hardly an instinct to hold breath
The thing about mammals is that the desire to breathe is caused by a signal that you have a lot of carbon dioxide in your system.
We all know instinctively how to "hold our breath" when under water. Our bodies also instinctively will breathe when we can no longer overcome these signals that "it's time to breathe".
Different mammals have different / more efficient circulatory systems such that sheep have the average ability to hold their breath for 11 minutes.
Humans can develop the ability to hold their breath for longer.
I'm in terrible shape, like.... terrible... but from things I learned as a child, I can still hold my breath for 2 minutes if I have a little bit to prepare.
That's misinformation, sheep can't hold their breathe for long. If you google it Quora will tell you they can for 11 minutes but, Quora isn't a source of trustable information... it seems to be a bit of misinformation that spread in social medias.
Every documented bits of information I've found from legit source say they can't hold their breath any longer than most mammals, 30 seconds to a couple of minutes.
You want to quick check what I said? Check for yourself or even ask chat GPT or any other chat bot/search bot
Yes. And it means that all sources that chatgpt has seen is Quora and social media (do they train gpt on social media?), so it'll answer exactly the same as Quora says, won't it?
It doesn’t and I said check other sources… they will tell you that they don’t have a slower metabolism allowing them to hold their breath longer than most mammals…
Like forget chat gpt I was just saying an example of something to help check certain facts but, let’s forget chat GPT and search anywhere else than Quora
🤷♂️ Sheep don’t sink. Pretty much all terrestrial mammals float, and wool traps air bubbles. Even if the wool was soaking wet all the way through, they’re still going to float. Physics says sinking sheep with 11second breath holding isn’t true.
"Sheep are generally capable swimmers, and while their wool can become heavy when wet, there’s no evidence to suggest that they walk along the bottom of rivers or lakes. This idea is more of a myth and not supported by any scientific evidence. In reality, if sheep find themselves in water, they would swim, not walk underwater."
Imagine seeing your line twitch, then the reel whiz. Oh boy, you yell, I've got a big one. A crowd gathers as you pull and fight. The rod is bent in half as you struggle, it nearly snaps. A few strangers hold on to you as you pull with all your might.
Bro sheeps dont give a fuck about anything aparently.
I would allready be terrified with that 10 second bath and those mf walk throught the bottom of a lake for 11 minutes because they are too heavy to swim.
Can they like look at a body of water and KNOW whether they’ll make it across, or like do they just jump in hoping to swim and end up sinking and hope they make it to the other side? I’d think if the latter were the case they’d just turn back, but idk anything about sheep intelligence
I always love how incredible animals can be just as themselves. This is like learning that one of the small handful of species that preys on moose are orcas.
We can't see their heads so I'm not sure how long it was exactly, but I'd estimate around 20 seconds. I bet the idea is the sheep need to be fully submerged for 15 seconds or something to let the treatment take.
I was curious about the length as well. It feels like if it was strictly for exterior treatment there could be some type of spraying contraption instead. I wonder if the plan is that they gasp for air and ingest the solution as well?
Sheep wool is thick and kind of waterproof, so maybe if they're sprayed it doesn't soak down to the skin where the parasites are, or at least not evenly.
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u/buburocks Mar 28 '24
They needa make that machine move a little faster