MigratoryAtlantic salmon(Salmo salar) provide perhaps the clearest example of where human activities are causing a species to change under our own eyes. Atlantic salmon typically are born in fresh water and develop for 1 to 2 years beforesmoltingand heading to sea to grow and fatten by feasting...
②One morning I spotted a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway cuts through my land.一天早上，我在顶层田地里发现了一只迷路的小羊，就在一条高速公路穿过我的土地的地方附近。③I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years.我在山坡上养殖羊群已经54年了。④When...
These wild sheep have been domesticated around 8000-9000 years ago in the Middle East and Central Asia. Domestication likely occurred because of the animals’ adaptability to a wide range of environments, as well as their suitability for meat, milk, and wool production. Over time, sheep were ...
alertness states, and tendency to follow a leader. But above all, sheep are known to recognize individuals on the basis of visual cues: up to 50 different sheep faces can be discriminated in an operant conditioning task at one time, and such recognition may last for up to 2years (Kendrick...
When we have had to import genetic material ourselves as you can see we have had to simply accept the costs if we wanted the material, then we have selectively bred (often employing AI/ET ourselves) and heavily culled these sheep for forty years to make them the very best Finnsheep in th...
domed baskets used for beehives) so that bees could freely move to a new skep once the old one was full, allowing for the easy retrieval of honey. These innovations removed the need to suffocate the colony prior to the harvesting of honey, allowing for the bees to survive for many years...
6And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. 7I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, ...
You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals 10 “For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your pe...
The Merino and Dorper flocks decreased in numbers from 1 130 sheep to 552 sheep over a period of nine years. From 1999 until 2007, a total of 747 lambs were lost to predation before weaning and a total of 1 422 lambs were lost post weaning. The number of reproductive Merino and Dor...
One morning I ___ a lost lamb when I was in the top field,near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its ___ , so I jumped out of the tractor to ___ it while Don stayed in his scat.Lamb and mother _...