Sentences with phrase «of wild sheep»

Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research.

Most significantly, however, the presence of the substantial number of bones identified as mouflon extends the known range of wild sheep.

A study by a team of archaeologists based at the University of Copenhagen published today in the Royal Society journal Open Science documents that the region now known as the Black Desert in eastern Jordan could sustain a population of wild sheep.

According to the team of University of Copenhagen archaeologists, who led the excavations, the discovery is further evidence that the region often seen as a «marginal zone» was capable of supporting a variety of resources, including a population of wild sheep, 14,500 years ago.

Not exact matches

The islands offer the hunter a choice of feral sheep, goat and pig, axis deer, California Valley and Japanese quail, barred and lace - neck doves, ringneck pheasant, chukar partridge and wild pigeon.

The wild sheep are available only on the rocky summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii, which also offers the best ranges for pig, pheasant and chukar.

Over thousands of years, these early farmers domesticated the first crops and transformed sheep, wild boars and other creatures into domestic animals.

The study shows that farmers need to protect their livestock from jackals even when similarly sized wild prey (small antelopes) are available because of their preference for sheep and goats.

«On the basis of morphological and metrical analysis of the faunal remains from Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A hunter - gatherer deposits, we can document that wild sheep would have inhabited the local environment year - round and formed an important resource for the human population to target for food.

«Our findings illustrate how adaptive humans were nearly 14,500 years ago in a period of climatic change: Wild sheep offered the Natufian and later Pre-Pottery Neolithic populations one of a myriad of resources that could be exploited during the Late Pleistocene even in this more marginal environment beyond the Mediterranean zone.

Hunting wild sheep is just one of the ways that this is reflected in the archaeological record,» said Lisa Yeomans.

«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

Just imagine a band of savages, exhausted from searching for nuts or chasing wild animals, suddenly grazing for the first time at a fruit - laden orchard or a pasture full of sheep.

Wild and early domesticated sheep have a bristly overcoat called the kemp and a fine undercoat of wool called the fleece.

His menagerie included a flock of flightless kiwis from New Zealand (which accompanied him to Cambridge when he arrived as a university student in 1887), 144 giant tortoises imported from the Galápagos Islands, a sheep - size South American rodent called a capybara, as well as wild asses, spiny and scaly anteaters, emus, and kangaroos.

TATT MAN Infrared imaging revealed that smudges on the upper - right arm of a naturally mummified Egyptian man are actually tattoos of a wild bull and a Barbary sheep.

Himalayan herders are rewarded for setting aside pastures for wild sheep — a food source for snow leopards — and insuring against loss of their livestock.

DNA recovered from calcified plaque on teeth from four Neandertal individuals suggest that those from the grasslands around Beligum's Spy cave ate woolly rhinoceros and wild sheep, while their counterparts from the forested El Sidrón cave in Spain consumed a menu of moss, mushrooms and pine nuts.

Roselli's discoveries about the reproductive behavior of domestic sheep may provide clues to population dynamics in endangered wild sheep.

Yes, our civilization owns almost 0.8 billion tons of cows, pigs, sheep, camels, etc.; but in the not too distant past animals in wild ecosystems were twice as abundant.

A recent study also showed a herd of wild Soay sheep in the Outer Hebrides had decreased by five per cent in the last 24 years for exactly the same reason.

Local people often have herds of domestic livestock driving wild sheep and goats (the snow leopard's main prey) out of the habitat area.

Wild sheep and goats are far and few in between in these mountains, and each hunt is a rollercoaster ride of steep cliffs, precipitous falls and desperate lunges.

These not - so - little remnants of the Wild West have allegedly dwelled there since the 1890s, when the San Francisco Zoo did not yet exist and the park had animals like bears, sheep, and bison on display.

Calabrians use the mountainous area covering most of the region to raise hill - loving pigs, goats and sheep and comb the woods for chestnuts, acorns and wild mushrooms to add rustic flavors to their cooking.

Most of you may know that I have a wild (and possibly peculiar) obsession with sheep.

The history of the domesticated sheep goes back to between 11000 and 9000 BC, and the domestication of the wild mouflon in ancient Mesopotamia.

A headstrong country girl who's «too wild to be a governess», Bathsheba Everdene (Mulligan) is introduced via the doe - eyed stares of strapping local sheep farmer, Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts, fast becoming today's answer to Fabio).

As a result of the eradication of the wolves, rats become a plague and wild sheep graze until the meadows turn to dust.

To escape the monotonous miles of heather, bracken and wild sheep, Ian read avidly, dreaming of one day arriving in a big city like London.

The dog is obviously susceptible as are many specieis of animals (including cattle, sheep, pigs and wild animals, etc) The cat very rarely suffers from clinical Leptospirosis and some feel the cat possesses a species immunity.

Aristotle wrote «Of the Molossian breed of dogs, such as are employed in the chase are pretty much the same as those elsewhere; but the sheep - dogs of this breed are superior to the others in size, and in the courage with which they face the attacks of wild animals.&raquOf the Molossian breed of dogs, such as are employed in the chase are pretty much the same as those elsewhere; but the sheep - dogs of this breed are superior to the others in size, and in the courage with which they face the attacks of wild animals.&raquof dogs, such as are employed in the chase are pretty much the same as those elsewhere; but the sheep - dogs of this breed are superior to the others in size, and in the courage with which they face the attacks of wild animals.&raquof this breed are superior to the others in size, and in the courage with which they face the attacks of wild animals.&raquof wild animals.»

Carmen is a Barbados sheep, a breed that is more like wild sheep and the ancestors of domestic sheep — she has hair and a fine wool that naturally sheds in the spring and summer.

A day's drive from York, for example, will take you through stretches of wild, heather - covered moorland, ablaze with colour in the fall; or past the steep, sheep - dotted mountainsides of the Dailes, in which isolated hamlets are scattered.

Our Phillip Island Eco Tour highlights the best of Victoria's nature and wildlife; from hand feeding kangaroos, seeing wild koalas, sheep shearing and watching the famous penguin parade!

A two - day paddle rounding the island's remote north shore leads to Balandra Bay, where you can hike an arroyo into the island's desert interior past saguaro - like cardon cactus and wild figs in the company of desert iguanas and big - horned sheep.

Hence, we see very few of the deer and antelope species, fewer still of the swine, the wild cattle and the larger and rarer goats and sheep.

A recent study also showed a herd of wild Soay sheep in the Outer Hebrides had decreased by five per cent in the last 24 years for exactly the same reason.