With their big eyes and soft fluffy fleece, it’s no wonder that lambs and sheep often appear in nursery rhymes and decorate ...

A Soay sheep on the island of Hirta, St Kilda archipelago, Scotland. Photo by Martin Stoffel. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

For centuries wild, chocolate coloured sheep called Soay sheep have been roaming the hills and dales of the Cheddar Gorge.

He added that the site's flock of Soay-Hebridean sheep are "good at eating the bracken" to help maintain the grassland. "It's not just the visuals - it's also the archaeology underneath," he said ...

See Toghani, D. et al. : In this issue, a World View from Dan Nussey discusses how long-term wild animal studies such as the St Kilda Soay sheep project, which has run in its current form since ...

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