History of sheep
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 112 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5091-1897-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated by humankind; sources provide a domestication date between nine and eleven thousand years ago in Mesopotamia. Their wild relatives have several characteristics—such as a relative lack of aggression, a manageable size, early sexual maturity, a social nature, and high reproduction rates—which made them particularly suitable for domestication. Today, Ovis aries is an entirely domesticated animal that is largely dependent on man for its health and survival.Feral sheep do exist, but exclusively in areas devoid of large predators (usually islands) and not on the scale of feral horses, goats, pigs, or dogs, although some feral populations have remained isolated long enough to be recognized as distinct breeds. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по...
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