Montréal, September 15, 2009 - The team led by Denis Reale, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at UQAM and Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Ecology, recently completed a study ...

The trick to herding a flock of sheep through the streets of West Oakland is that if you get Meatball to go, they’ll all go. Meatball is the father in a small flock of four that’s huddling underneath ...

In the Abrahamic traditions, sheep occupy a special position. Because all their great prophets had a touch of fascism, the docility of the sheep appealed to them. They wished people followed their ...

The general approach the Church asks of us in weighing her teaching is “docility”. This is not a word that sits well with most of us, because it calls to mind images of sheep quietly going to be ...

Sheep are much more genetically diverse than other domestic animals, making them ideal for selective breeding. While humans have been domesticating animals like dogs, cats and even elephants for tens ...

Calving ease and muscle depth have come top in a survey looking at how beef and sheep farmers use estimated breeding values (EBVs) in breeding programmes. Also of importance were scan weight, ...

Scientists recently completed a study showing the link between personality, survival and reproductive success in male bighorn sheep. In addition to being a significant advance in our knowledge of ...