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  Sheep - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sheep aficionados know female sheep as ewes, intact males as rams, castrated males as wethers, yearlings as hoggets, and younger sheep as lambs.
The sheep (or goat) forms one of the animals associated with the 12-year cycle of in the Chinese zodiac, related to the Chinese calendar.
Domestic sheep are descended from the moufflon (Ovis orientalis) that is found from the mountains of Turkey to southern Iran.
open-encyclopedia.com /Sheep   (1000 words)

  
 Sheep -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sheep breeders refer to female sheep as ewes, intact males as rams, castrated males as wethers, yearlings as hoggets, and younger sheep as (Young sheep) lambs.
Early domesticated sheep have been found in (additional info and facts about PPNB) PPNB (A village in Jordan near the north end of the Dead Sea; in the Old Testament it was the first place taken by the Israelites under Joshua as the entered the Promised Land) Jericho and Zawi Chemi Shanidar.
One calls a sheep that roams furthest away from the others an outlier (the term also occurs in (A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters) statistics).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/sheep.htm   (1488 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Sheep
The domestic sheep is thought to be descended from the wild moufflon of south-central and south-west Asia.
A male sheep is a ram, a female a ewe, and a young sheep a lamb.
Sheep husbandry is the raising and breeding of domestic sheep.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sheep   (1213 words)

  
 Neuro course 1998 Sheep brain dissection
Close-up of anterior portion of ventral surface of the sheep brain.
This closeup of the posterior ventral lateral part of the sheep brain is good to show the abducens nerve and the choroid plexus.
In this close-up of the venttral surface of the sheep brain, glossopharyngeal and vagus nerve have been teased apart and the (spinal) accessory nerve is clear.
starklab.slu.edu /neuro/SheepBrain.htm   (484 words)

  
 Wikipedia:List of images/Nature/Animals/Sheep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Please do not list images which are only usable under the doctrine of fair use, images whose license restricts copying or distribution to non-commercial use only, or otherwise non-free images here.
Images to complement the wikipedia article on sheep.
This page was last modified 04:32, 15 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Images_of_sheep   (86 words)

  
 sheep   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A sheep is any of several woolly ruminant quadrupeds, but most commonly the Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries), which probably descends from the wild urial of south-central and south-west Asia.
Sheep aficionados know female sheep as ewes, males as rams, yearlings as hoggets, and younger sheep as lambs.
Sheep follow other sheep blindly, hence one can refer to people as "sheep" when they follow a group of other people.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /sheep.html   (772 words)

  
 Sheep   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sheep breeders refer to female sheep as ewes, intact males as rams, castrated males as wethers, yearlings as hoggets, and younger sheep as lambs.
Sheep breeding has played a role in several historic conflicts, such as the Highland clearances, the U.S. range wars, and the English "inclosing of the commons".
This sheep undertakes to go out further away from the safety of the flock to graze, while taking a chance that a predator, such as a wolf, will attack it first because of its isolation.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sheep.htm   (1225 words)

  
 Alaska Stock Images - Dall Sheep Photos
Mineral licks are popular grounds for all sheep and rams, ewes, and different bands will all congregate in these areas to partake of the minerals found in the soil.
The population of Dall Sheep in Alaska is considered abundant and healthy.
In fact, the Dall Sheep is one of the more successful animals in Alaska largely due to the habitat of living in the remote cliffs and bluffs of mountain ranges that are generally unsuitable for humans.
www.alaskastock.com /Dall_Sheep_Photos.asp   (732 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - Nervous sheep are pleased to see ewe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sheep placed in a stressful situation, by being isolated from their companions, find the pictures of a familiar sheep face more comforting than other similar images, Cambridge University scientists found.
Each individual was then separated from the flock and put in an isolated room with four large images of inverted triangles, to represent the shape of a sheep's face.
After 15 minutes, the four images were replaced by either four identical photographs of a life-sized sheep's face of the same breed, or images of a face from a related species — a goat.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn6320   (607 words)

  
 Sheep for PlayStation Review - PlayStation Sheep Review
Sheep aren't just cuddly, docile creatures put on this earth to provide us with wool and something to count during periods of insomnia.
No, sheep are actually the descendants of a race of space-faring explorers, who originally came to our lowly little orb to examine our societies and customs.
Controlling the sheep is easy enough to let you get started, but mastering their movements and responses to your actions can take a while to accomplish.
www.gamespot.com /ps/strategy/sheep/review.html   (885 words)

  
 St. Mark's Berkeley: Easter Sermon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Caring for sheep was a fact of life, something which had to be dealt with.
And what a fertile image for exploring the relationship between the leaders and the led, the governors and the governed, in society.
Now it is time to care for the "sheep fold" where we have been sheltered and nurtured and to ensure it will be there for our children and our children's children, not to mention for our own old age.
www.stmarksberkeley.org /worship/sermon050601.html   (1198 words)

  
 free images
In the imageafter.com 'image' directory you can expect free high resolution images of objects, places, animals, mechanics, insects, signs, circuits and plants etc. All stock photos can be freely downloaded and used in you commercial or personal works.
People who donate images agreed to give up their rights to the images and that the images are theirs to give away.
Images of sheep, horses chicken, thurtles, aligators, chicken all animals that to some extend kling to the land or at least on that particular photo.
www.imageafter.com /images.php?category=0   (751 words)

  
 Revolving Sheep Bank
The Revolving Sheep Bank is a small-scale, five-year micro-credit project that lends reproductive-age sheep and goats to poor nomads in Western Tibet.
Assuming 10% annual mortality of adult sheep and 30% annual mortality of lambs and kids, at the end of five years the Revolving Sheep Bank will be repaid in full from the first year's loan.
However, based on the overall number of livestock per household, in one of the households to whom we gave sheep, their overall number of animals had increased by 38% as of April 20th, and in the other by 28%.
www.angelfire.com /on/bodhi/sheep.html   (1922 words)

  
 Nikon MicroscopyU: Fluorescence Microscopy Digital Image Gallery - Sheep Tongue Tissue
Images were recorded in grayscale with a 12-bit digital camera coupled to either a Nikon E-600 or Eclipse 80i microscope equipped with bandpass emission fluorescence filter optical blocks.
During the processing stage, individual image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles.
Targeting F-Actin in Sheep Tongue Tissue with Dye-Labeled Phallotoxins - Phalloidin is a phallotoxin isolated from the highly toxic Amanita phalloides mushroom that binds polymerized actin (F-actin).
www.microscopyu.com /galleries/fluorescence/sheeptongue.html   (449 words)

  
 sheep stock photos / stock photos of sheep images search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The images on the Photographers Direct website are available for licensing direct from the photographers who have submitted them.
If you are interested in licensing any pictures you can submit a 'purchase enquiry' by entering your contact details and either quoting your budget or asking the photographer to send you a quote for the use of their stock photos.
Photographers Direct is committed to assisting photographers in receiving the best possible commission rates for the licensing of their stock photography images.
www.photographersdirect.com /stockphotos/sheep.asp   (393 words)

  
 The-Sheep-art
One of the most beautiful and yet commonplace images in the art of the Medieval and Renaissance periods is the portrayal of sheep and lambs.
These sheep, which were intended to provide fresh meat for the sailors, became castaways when at least one of the ships wrecked off the southeastern coast of Scotland.
The sheep swam ashore, interbred with the native mountain sheep, and are the supposed foundation stock for the exceptionally hardy breeds such as the Cheviot.
www.florilegium.org /files/ANIMALS/The-Sheep-art.html   (1841 words)

  
 Reno News and Review Cover story - June 27, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
His sheep is a beautiful, informational piece of art loaded with obscure tidbits that may puzzle viewers--and perhaps prompt them to do more research on the subject themselves.
The sheep has another kind of weighty garment: a concrete box hugging its mid-section, with photocopied photographic images of historic Carson City transferred onto the concrete with clear-cut acrylic.
Jim Zlokovich's sheep, Sunny, is one of the simpler of the bunch.
www.newsreview.com /issues/Reno/2002-06-27/cover.asp   (2432 words)

  
 A Trace of the Past
The images are divided by style or the manner in which the objects were rendered and period referring to the time the drawings were made.
Early period images include sheep, atatls- which was a type of weapon, figures, and abstracts.
Late period images are more stylized and generally done with more skill than either of the early periods.
www.geocities.com /mojaveolver/petro.html   (619 words)

  
 Round   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As you are looking at the underside of a sheep you cannot see the bird at work, but you hear a fizzling noise and then a rather excited sheep bleating and running for its life as it is zapped several times.
The sheep runs headlong into another one, and after a few moments the ground rummbles as the whole herd goes into a mad frenzy.
The sheep trips and falls, the bonds still attatched to it, but they are both on the ground left behind the other sheep 'mounts' of the party.
www.pacificnet.net /~mgerickson/PBEM_RPG/archive/round3/069.html   (234 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The high resolution sheep available from the web pages and in the video documentary were born on the sheep server; the parameters were then tweaked to increase quality and finally they were re-rendered and compressed off-line to avoid MPEG compression artifacts.
The animation of each sheep is produced by rotating all of its transforms by 360 degrees.
Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations...The shape of each image is specified by a long string of numbers - a genetic code of sorts.
babel.massart.edu /~cnholmes/abstract.html   (410 words)

  
 Sheep Images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
New Zealand has 45 million sheep and produces the finest wool in the world and is also the biggest producer of wool in the world after Australia.
Today there are six main sheep breeds, and about 30 breeds in total.
All our images can be purchased for commercial and non-commercial use.
www.virtualoceania.net /newzealand/photos/rural/sheep   (179 words)

  
 All Jihad, All the Time! Just No Disturbing Sheep Images, Please!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Watching a sheep being skinned is probably too graphic a scene for their viewers.
The footage shows lambs partially skinned alive during a procedure called "mulesing." Sheep are repeatedly kicked as they are loaded onto what PETA calls "death ships." Other sheep are are shown being dragged and kicked in the head as their throats are slit while other sheep watch.
"Since Australian sheep are haram on the grounds of cruelty to animals, we call on people in the Middle East to consider whether importing live sheep from Australia is in accordance with Islamic law," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk.
www.gopinsight.com /2005/06/all-jihad-all-time-just-no-disturbing.php   (621 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | All anxious sheep want is a picture of ewe
The researchers put sheep into a darkened barn on their own and projected life-sized images of sheep, goats and symbolic faces, on a screen.
In 2001, Professor Kendrick showed that sheep could remember the faces of up to 50 other sheep and up to 10 humans, and recognise them from photographs for up to two years.
Farmers who have to transport solitary sheep might consider taking along a picture of another sheep to lower the heart rate and the adrenaline levels.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1290106,00.html   (382 words)

  
 sheep
Sheep dairy news, sheep milk facts, and a collection of sheep milk recipes is provided as part of the site.
Six of the collections focus on sheep images, two are collections of cattle photographs, and there are galleries for machinery, wool, agricultural scenes, and diagrams.
It provides advice for both purchasers and vendors of sheep, and covers the development of a healthy flock, buying in replacement sheep, transport, what to do when the animals arrive on farm, and looks at signs of and treatments for diseases, external parasites, liver flukes, enzootic (chlamydial) abortion, and zoonotic risks.
agrifor.ac.uk /browse/cabi/23ec24c5ca59000543cee1dfded0cbea.html   (1699 words)

  
 The Origin of Sheep Thrillz
Sheep Thrillz is the brainchild of Raven OKeefe and Ian Caldicott.
Border Collies are of course herding dogs and so naturally a number of our products also included images of sheep.
The increase in sheep artwork and the success of the products we were making from our wool led us to the conclusion that we should open up a new web site to share our sheep based products and the thrills that our life with the sheep brings us with others.
www.sheepthrillz.com /about.htm   (207 words)

  
 Out-of-Season Lambing Ready for Producers, NDSU Researchers Say
The spring-born lamb is one of the most enduring images of sheep production, but after 15 years of study, North Dakota State University researchers have developed a system that has a 90 percent success rate for breeding sheep to lamb in the fall instead.
The benefits will include a more stable supply of sheep for sheep processors and consumers and improved prices for sheep producers who can supply lambs during seasonal lulls in production.
At the Sheep Day, NDSU staff will distribute a new pocket management calendar that outlines key dates for creating and managing a sheep flock that lambs out of season.
www.ext.nodak.edu /extnews/newsrelease/2002/012402/16out-of.htm   (968 words)

  
 Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest
Sheep rise up, refuse to give up your wool, refuse the slaughter of your lambs, this is year we fight, they can take our lives but they can't take our freedom!
thanks to pigfeeler, err, i mean bigpeeler for one of the images.
Sorry, no merchandise is available for SHEEP in sheep's clothing.
www.worth1000.com /cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=649   (632 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep - Images of Colorado   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep - Images of Colorado
Bighorn sheep are such impressive mammals that it is very easy to see why they have earned their designation as the state animal of Colorado.
If you wish to license our images or text, please first carefully read our Image Use Policy and then e-mail us.
www.imagesofcolorado.com /bighornsheep.html   (342 words)

  
 Door County, Wisconsin - Whitefish Bay Farm, Bed and Breakfast
Corriedale sheep are best known for their wool qualities which are wonderful for handspinning making a soft, lofty yarn.
Our sheep graze new sections of pasture each day so morning begins with moving portable electric fencing to create a fresh paddock for them to graze that day.They rotate through approximately 17 acres of permanent pasture.
This event is a joint effort by members of the Door County Sheep and Goat Raisers and involves the Arachne Spinning Guild along with other Door County fiber artists.
www.whitefishbayfarm.com /farm.htm   (679 words)

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