Do androids dream of lesbian sheep? One of the questions in Blade Runner’s Voight-Kampf test had Rachel asking Deckard if he was trying to identify her as gay or human. Anyhow, researchers have discovered sheep with low libido and homosexual rams -- but aren’t sure about the existence of gay ewes.

The gay rams are easier to spot: they have no trouble with expressing sexuality via mounting. Their problem is that no ram wants to play bottom. Lesbian sheep, meanwhile, are apparently wrestling with the “wallflower phenomenon.”

"It's very difficult to look at the possibility of lesbian sheep," Perkins explained, "because if you are a female sheep, what you do to solicit sex is stand still. You don't mount. So, it's very rare that a female sheep would mount another female sheep.”

“Maybe there is a female sheep out there really wanting another female," Perkins speculated, "but there's just no way for us to know it."

Imagine a party where everyone is just standing around waiting for somebody else to ask them to dance. But nobody has the guts to ask anyone. So they all stand around, preen into their mirrors and smoke grass. And yeah, they’re all vegetarian.

Via boing boing.