See also: Sheep (homonymy)

The sheep is a domestic Mammifère Herbivore of the family of the Bovidae, subfamily of the Caprinés. The man raises the sheep for his Viande, his Lait, his Laine and his Peau with which one prepares a Cuir called “Basane”.

Names naming the representatives of the species

The small one of the sheep is the Agneau (female: ewe-lamb ), the female the ewe and the male the ram , the term sheep which can indicate a male chatré.

Description

The sheep is a apprehensive Animal, which likes to live in herd: the expression Grégaire finds its source in this behavior. The man by selection sometimes exacerbated this behavior, to be simplified work. For example, the falling Ear S, limit the capacities of orientation, therefore exacerbate the behavior of herd, with its advantages and disadvantages. Food fear, is a quality essential to all the ruminants. According to work of Lynch, the sheep are programmed to agree to introduce only 10 grams per day of an unknown and/or new food, and this during ten days. This behavior (Néophobie) allows the food Apprentissage. It is at the base of survival in unknown medium, by training and test. This behavior, known of some Shepherd S.A. justified the use of guide nonovine, but caprine, to improve valorization of complex spaces.

The time of gestation is approximately 150 days. The low setting is generally made January at July. The lambs can cover a female as from 4 months while the ewe-lambs can be covered only as from approximately one year. However they can be covered before their 1 year but there are risks.

Classification, denomination and stories of the species

Genome

If the Chèvre has 60 Chromosome S, the Ovin S can have 54,56 or 58 of them. The sheep domesticates in has 54. It can exceptionally exist Hybride S sheep, goat which one names Chabin or Ovicapre and which has 57 chromosomes.

The sheep and the man

Religion

It is an animal with strong weight symbolic system in the abrahamic Religions.

In kitchen

The meat of sheep is rather fatty and can have a pronounced Goût. It in particular is very consumed in the the Maghreb, for example in the form of Méchoui or while entering the composition of the Couscous, and to Turkey in the chich kebab. In France, the meat of sheep or lamb is often consumed in the form of Côtelette S, of Gigot or of Ragoût.

The ewe's milk is employed with the manufacture of different Fromage S, of which most known are the roquefort, the Brocciu, the Pécorino (Italy) and the Feta (Greek cheese).

Breeding

The consumed sheep is a ewe or a ram castrated high exclusively for its meat.

After the China, the largest producer countries of sheep, specialized in the production of wool, are located in the southern hemisphere: Australia, New Zealand, Argentinian (Patagonie).

Other directions of the word “sheep”

The sheep term also indicates in the language running the products of the sheep, its Viande, its Cuir, its Fourrure. One says for example: a mutton stew.

In Slang, a sheep can be a companion of cell which the geôliers place with a prisoner to obtain consents.

A sheep can also represent a naive person, who follows and repeats stupidly the actions of her congeneric, it is a reference to the sheep which follows its Troupeau by conformism. For example, in experiments undertaken by the American psychologist Solomon Elliott Asch within the framework of the social Psychology, a subject on which experimentative requires it to name the capital of Romania, answers Budapest in an erroneous way, because the other members of the group, accessory to the experiment, had given this answer rather than Bucharest, the exact answer.

Être a sheep also means, with the illustrated direction, being somebody whose acts are perfectly foreseeable.

The sheep also indicates an agglomerate of Poussière which ends up forming large balls, particularly in the confined surroundings (under the beds, behind the pieces of furniture, for example).

A Western tradition advises, in order to facilitate drowsiness, to count the sheep mentally. A usual representation shows these sheep jumping a barrier successively. The idea is that this imaginary spectacle is sufficiently repetitive and hypnotic to cause the Sommeil.

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