Important animal scholar-sheep. 🐑 Strap in, this #ThrowbackThursday we're giving you a glimpse into what sheep research looked like back in the 1960s and 1970s in our then Division of Animal Physiology. This first picture from 1960 is of a sheep with a transistorised radio attached to its back which transmitted information about the animal's chewing habits back to the lab. The second picture is from 1970, and is of a telemetry system strapped to a sheep which transmitted data back to the lab about the heat load experienced by the animal. These days, technology to track and monitor the wellbeing of animals is far smaller and more efficient. In 2014, we created and placed tiny 'backpacks' which could perform similar data recording on bees! But these pieces of technology helped us learn about animals in their regular conditions long before ewe'd even thought of a fitness tracker!
