--- title: Watch These Sheep description: Here's the science behind sheep passing through a bottleneck canonical: https://time.com/3735868/watch-these-sheep/ author: Improbable Research article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-10T14:30:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:59:02.067Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Wake Up, Sheeple! And Watch These Sheep Crowd Through a Door og:description: Here's the science behind sheep passing through a bottleneck. og:url: https://time.com/3735868/watch-these-sheep/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22e0c67e2074256/69878290428a9e6b84cc77ff/180665873-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: sheep og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Wake Up, Sheeple! And Watch These Sheep Crowd Through a Door twitter:description: Here's the science behind sheep passing through a bottleneck. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22e0c67e2074256/69878290428a9e6b84cc77ff/180665873-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Wake Up, Sheeple! And Watch These Sheep Crowd Through a Door by [Improbable Research](https://time.com/author/improbable-research/) ## Improbable Research Mar 10, 2015 2:30 PM UTC  Side by side Side by sideGetty Images by [Improbable Research](https://time.com/author/improbable-research/) ## Improbable Research Mar 10, 2015 2:30 PM UTC [A physics experiment of sheep passing through a bottleneck](http://www.improbable.com/2013/11/07/the-physics-of-squeezing-sheep-through-a-bottleneck/), which we featured some months ago, has now been formally published, and the researchers have released a video of the experiment. The study is: --- > “” --- Here’s the video: _This_ [_article_](http://www.improbable.com/2015/02/26/demonstration-of-the-physics-of-sheep-through-a-bottleneck/) _originally appeared on_ [_Improbable Research_](http://www.improbable.com/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3735868/watch-these-sheep/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3735868/watch-these-sheep/"},"headline":"Wake Up, Sheeple! And Watch These Sheep Crowd Through a Door","datePublished":"2015-03-10T14:30:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:59:02.067Z","description":"Here's the science behind sheep passing through a bottleneck","url":"https://time.com/3735868/watch-these-sheep/","keywords":["Science topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22e0c67e2074256/69878290428a9e6b84cc77ff/180665873-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Improbable Research","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/improbable-research/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22e0c67e2074256/69878290428a9e6b84cc77ff/180665873-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"sheep","caption":"sheep","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3735868/watch-these-sheep/","name":"Wake Up, Sheeple! And Watch These Sheep Crowd Through a Door"}}]}] ```