Sentences with phrase «domestic goats and sheep»
«Since the herders of Tost are semi-nomadic and utilize the mountains almost exclusively in winter, this landscape provides us with a natural experimental setup: for more than half the year, there are almost no domestic goats and sheep in the mountains, allowing us to examine where the ibex go and how they behave in the absence of livestock.
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Sheep are close contemporaries and cohorts of goats in the history of domestication, but the domestic sheep is quite vulnerable to predation and injury, and thus rarely if ever is seen in a feral state.
Most of the technology and culture associated with farming including domestic sheep, goat, cattle, and pig originated here.
Zooarchaeological studies of the most popular domestic animals such as cattle, sheep, goats and pigs have demonstrated repeated introductions as well as failures of new species in different regions of the world.
The researchers looked at domestic and international trade of corn, rice, soy and wheat, along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle, goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter), pork and poultry.
Local people often have herds of domestic livestock driving wild sheep and goats (the snow leopard's main prey) out of the habitat area.
Ibex Captra sibirica is the primary prey of snow leopards in this region, followed by domestic goat Capra hircus, argali Ovis ammon, domestic sheep Ovis aries and other species including Tolai hare Lepus tolai, Chukar partridge Alectoris chukar, and several species of rodents -LRB-[21], Johansson, unpublished data).
It was easier to use domestic animals like cows, sheep, pigs, goats, and horses than hunt their wild ancestors.
Tulsa defines domestic animals to mean dogs and cats, as well as horses, donkeys, mules, burros, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, rabbits and fowl.
Domestic companion and farm animals of all kinds; horses, pigs, goats, sheep, burros, cows find a safe haven at this unique and dedicated no - kill animal facility.
Domestic animals can be held, patted or fed - including rabbits, deer, sheep, goats, horses, wallabies, peacocks, chickens, geese, ducks, turtles and aviary - housed birds.