Sheep with Red Ear Tags
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
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Sheep with Red Ear Tags
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
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Photograph - Photographs
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Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock.Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Europe and Asia. One of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes, sheep are raised for fleece, meat (lamb, hogget or mutton) and milk. A sheep's wool is the most widely used animal fiber, and is usually harvested by shearing. Ovine meat is called lamb when from younger animals and mutton when from older ones. Sheep continue to be important for wool and meat today, and are also occasionally raised for pelts, as dairy animals, or as model organisms for science.
Sheep husbandry is practiced throughout the majority of the inhabited world, and has been fundamental to many civilizations. In the modern era, Australia, New Zealand, the southern and central South American nations, and the British Isles are most closely associated with sheep production.
FEATURED 12/19/14 in "3 A Day AAA Images"
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July 28th, 2014
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