Using novel sensing technology, experts have found that lame sheep adjust how they carry out certain actives, such as walking, standing or laying down, rather than simply reducing the amount they do.

At first glance, sheep and goats appear quite similar; both are small, hoofed farm animals raised for their meat, milk, and fibre. However, despite sharing a common ancestry, they differ greatly in ...

In 2019, Joel Berger and Forest Hayes were scoping out grizzlies in the Rocky Mountains when they saw something peculiar. Through their spotting scopes, they saw white dots on the landscape about a ...

A uniquely New Zealand study into the devastating dementia-like disease CTE is focussing on the behaviour of sheep in two paddocks in rural New Zealand.

New research has found that a sheep's experiences soon after birth can shape its later behaviour and also that of its offspring. The study led by academics from the University of Bristol's School of ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Sheep breeders in the United Kingdom are worried about the serious ramifications that a same-sex loving species might do to their business. According to “My Gay Dog and Other Animals,” a documentary ...

In the first study of its kind, published today in the Journal of the Royal Society Open Science, a team of experts from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University have been able ...