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A federal judge has ordered a western Idaho rancher to keep his sheep off his family's traditional grazing ground on public land to protect wild native bighorns. Federal land managers on Monday opted not to fight the ruling.
Environmentalists have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-designate 1,320 square miles of Southern California as protected habitat for an endangered sheep.
A British farmer who paid a new world record price for a sheep says the animal is the finest specimen he has ever seen.
Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.
The contestants scampered down the runway, bleating at their admirers. Poets sang their praises in verse as the male-only audience appraised the competitors' physical beauty, right down to the length of their necks.
Being a freeman of the City of London used to mean strolling around with your sword unsheathed, getting as drunk as you liked and driving your sheep across London Bridge for free.
The federal government is designating more than 625 square miles of wildlands in a California mountain range as protected habitat for an endangered mountain sheep.
Eight Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep died in southwest Colorado last month, and all showed signs of pneumonia, state wildlife officers said Wednesday.
Iranian scientists said Monday that the country's first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep. The cloned male sheep named Royana was born Sept. 30, 2006 in the historic central city of Isfahan, less than two months after the country's first cloned animal, also a lamb, died within minutes of birth.
Low wool prices and high shearing costs have led many sheep farmers to add a special breed of woolless sheep to their flocks, raising fears that sheep shearing may become a lost art.
Several dozen desert bighorn sheep in southern New Mexico will be outfitted this week with new radio collars, enabling biologists to continue monitoring the endangered species.
Shepherds from across the world joined their Spanish colleagues to lead flocks of sheep through the streets of downtown Madrid on Sunday in defense of ancient grazing routes threatened by urban sprawl and manmade frontiers.
Scientists successfully removed the uterus (pictured) and then transplanted it back into the sheep, which later became pregnant (Image: Pernilla Dahm-Kahler/Mats Brannstrom)
Farmers led a flock of hundreds of bleating sheep through downtown Madrid on Sunday in an pungent protest urging the protection of ancient grazing routes threatened by urban sprawl.
Iranian doctors have overseen the country's first animal cloning — a lamb that died minutes after birth — and plan future experiments in genetics and stem cell research, a member of the team said Wednesday.
Australian researchers have launched a search for the country's ugliest sheep — no matter how wrinkled, lumpy, bald or just plain funny looking — to try to identify genes that produce high quality wool.
A homeless man who police say tried to take a sheep from the Little Rock Zoo has been arrested on numerous charges. A security guard at the zoo called police Tuesday evening after spotting a man carrying a trash can with a sheep in it, a police report said.
Ranching, recreation collide in the great outdoors -- latimes.comRanching, recreation collide in the great outdoors The mountain biker was excited about her big race in Colorado's wilderness. And nothing irked the sheepherder like the sports crowd. It was a disaster waiting to happen.
BBC News - Pet sheep Lucy in legal wrangleThis might more appropriately have been titled "Loosing Sheep". Poor little lamb had to experience a court battle over whose pet it was. Fiction doesn't get better than this.
World's oldest sheep, Lucky, dies in Australia at 23The world's oldest sheep has died in Australia at the age of 23 - twice the normal life expectancy - after succumbing to a record heatwave. Lucky hit the Guinness record in 2007 and was a celebrity in her hometown of Lake Bolac, near Melbourne.
Jon Stewart Explains To Conservative Pundits Why He Doesn't Like Sarah PalinJon Stewart did it again as it pertains to not only why he dislikes Palin but why most Americans should based on the information he reveals about her in his video. Check out the video because it is funny but also is accurate in it's description of the quitter former Governor.
Experts: GHG pollution 50% greater than thought, livestock give over 51% of GHGs pa World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.
Recruit continues army's sheepish traditionThe Australian Army's Brisbane based 8/9 battalion could have the wool pulled over its eyes when it enlists a new recruit today.
Fan dressed as sheep set alightA 24-year-old football fan dressed as a sheep suffered serious burns to his arms and legs when he was set alight on a train in Fife. Aberdeen fans said the man ran through the carriage on fire as others threw beer on him to douse the flames.
Flock of sheep bursts into flames after gas leak in Jordan A flock of sheep burst into flames and was incinerated after a methane gas leak exploded in the desert in northern Jordan.
Marcus the sheep gets the chop CHILDREN were left in tears today when they learned the school sheep they tried to save from slaughter had been turned into lamb chops. Cuddly Marcus the Sheep was hand reared by pupils at Lydd Primary School, in Kent, who launched a national campaign to stop his killing.
Shear madness? Sheep is sold for £230,000IT MAY just be the ultimate ram raid – and one which is guaranteed to leave any bank manager feeling a little sheepish.
Reflections on Psalm 23 Does the 23rd Psalm remind you of death and funerals? It does to me, to an extent, because it's so often recited at funerals.Yet, whenever I read the entire chapter I don't think of death at all, but of life.
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | North East/N Isles | UK's most expensive sheep is deadBritain's most expensive sheep has died at a farm in north east Scotland after fathering lambs worth more than £1m.
Lovelorn ram snagged on live wireA lovelorn ram has caught his horn on an electricity cable and "abseiled" down a hill while trying to reach a field of ewes.
Kenyan renews Chelsea goat offerA Kenyan man has told the BBC how happy he is that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to renew his marriage offer to her daughter.
A Sheep Was Stuck "More Than 15 Feet Above the Ground": Caught on Utility CableThe unfortunate sheep was spotted bleating for help more than 15 feet above the ground next to an telegraph pole.This apparently happened on August 5, 2009, and the pictures are almost unbelievable!
100% renewable electricity by 2020 would cost US$12 billion for New Zealand (pop 4.2 M)According to NZ Climate Change Minister Nick Smith, achieving 100% renewable electricity by 2020 would cost $17.5 billion (US$11.8 bn), put power prices up by 30% and require the equivalent of seven Clyde Dams
Mulesing deadline abandonedTHE Australian wool industry has dumped a long-standing pledge to phase out mulesing by the end of 2010, a move that has outraged animal welfare groups and led to criticism by some farmers.
AWI turns back on 2010 mulesing deadlineIn a statement to the media this morning, AWI said its new policy would support a "scientific fact-based approach to ensure the optimal health, welfare and productivity of Australian sheep, and to ensure they are protected from the risks of disease and death".
Climate change is shrinking sheepClimate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research. Scientists say milder winters help smaller sheep to survive, resulting in this "paradoxical decrease in size".
Climate change and the mystery of the shrinking sheepMilder winters are causing Scotland's wild breed of Soay sheep to get smaller, despite the evolutionary benefits of possessing a large body, according to new research due to be published in this week's Science Express (2 July).
More use grazing sheep, goats against invasive weeds, vinesIn between rows of grapevines at a Mendocino County farm in California, dozens of sheep are milling about, munching on the grass and weeds.
I stalked the forest, weapon in hand, Dad on the point.
Little Girl On A Plane A stranger who was seated next to a little girl on the airplane turned to her and said, 'Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.'
Sheep-killing wolf shot A wolf who attacked and killed or injured more than 40 sheep in eastern Sweden has been shot.
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