Sentences with phrase «wild sheep»
The phrase "wild sheep" refers to sheep that live and roam freely in their natural habitat, rather than being domesticated and taken care of by humans. These sheep are not controlled or owned by anyone, and they live like other wild animals. Full definition
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Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research.
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«Wild sheep grazed in the Black Desert 14,500 years ago.»
Himalayan herders are rewarded for setting aside pastures for wild sheep — a food source for snow leopards — and insuring against loss of their livestock.
During our surveys we were delighted to find sign of argali, the rare and endangered wild sheep of the area.
«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.
Excavations of architecture and associated deposits left by hunter - gatherers in the Black Desert in eastern Jordan have revealed bones from wild sheep — a species previously not identified in this area in the Late Pleistocene.
Hunting wild sheep is just one of the ways that this is reflected in the archaeological record,» said Lisa Yeomans.
Nussey's wild sheep shed several pounds the year before they die; alpine ibex older than 8 or 9 can't tolerate harsh weather; some plants lose their ability to survive drought.
Local people often have herds of domestic livestock driving wild sheep and goats (the snow leopard's main prey) out of the habitat area.
A petroglyph, this one a large wild sheep with huge horns carved 2000 years ago on rock.
Amazed spectators watched as dogs quickly handled and penned wild sheep.
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.
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.
As a result of the eradication of the wolves, rats become a plague and wild sheep graze until the meadows turn to dust.
And they cite success in the Indian Himalayas, where farmers leave land for wild sheep, upon which the snow leopards depend.
Roselli's discoveries about the reproductive behavior of domestic sheep may provide clues to population dynamics in endangered wild sheep.
Wild sheep can do an affective job of keeping predators at bay all by themselves, and some can live to a ripe old age, while it is a certainty that no sheep survived being roasted under the shepherd's «protection».
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.
«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.
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.
Most significantly, however, the presence of the substantial number of bones identified as mouflon extends the known range of wild sheep.
The wild sheep Ovis armeniana becomes Ovis orientalis anatolicus, while the deer Capreolus capreolus armenius is now Capreolus capreolus capreolus.
The clone is a baby mouflon, a wild sheep native to Sardinia and other Mediterranean islands.
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.
Among the animals commonly hunted at the time and also depicted in other caves are horses, aurochs, bison, wild sheep and reindeer.
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.
Wool has been serving men since a caveman first put on skins of wild sheep.