Mountain sheep

Bows were made of wood, wood backed with sinew, and of mountain-sheep, buffalo, or elk horn. Almost every wood found on and around the almost treeless... 

In Figure 6.23.2, this can be seen to be true for humans. This law has also been found to be applicable to fruit flies, nanatodes, Uce, flour beetles, mice, rats, dogs, horses, mountain sheep, baboons, and many otha species. 

Geist, V. 91. Mountain Sheep A Study in Behavior and Evolution. Chicago Univ. Chicago Press. 

They were not only wrong, they were lamentably and persistently wrong. Yellowstone National Park was set up in 1872 as the first formal nature reserve in the world. (Note that 1 am paraphrasing here - Michael Crichton s version is far more eloquent.) In 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visited it for a dedication ceremony and noted with pleasure the abundant wild life - a thousand antelope, plentiful cougar, mountain sheep, deer, coyote, and many thousands of elk. Yet only thirty years later, the park service acknowledged that white-tailed deer, cou, lynx, wolf, and possibly wolverine and fisher are gone from the Yellowstone . What they didn t say was that they had actually caused this by well-intentioned muddled interference roughly as follows. 

A high rate of fetal malformations in sheep offspring occurs following grazing on Veratrum califomicum growing in the mountains of North America. Plants that induce abortion, such as bitter melon seeds, have a long history of use of in humans. 

McElfresh, J. S. and Millar, J. G. (1999a). Sex pheromone of Nuttall s sheep moth, Hemileuca nuttalli, from the eastern Sierra Mountains of California. Journal of Chemical Ecology 25 711-726. 

The University of New Mexico, for example, has a particular problem. At a certain time in the school year, students will leave because they have to move the sheep from one part of the mountain to the other and help the family continue to do that kind of work. So, we really have to be cognizant... 

Homed animals are plentiful and occur worldwide in a huge variety of species. Cows, sheep and goats live among us as domesticated animals giving milk, wool and meat. In India, cows roam the streets and are regarded as sacred. Antelope live in the bush, the tropics, and the mountains, and buffalo and bison graze in the plains. They all belong to the family Bovidae. 

In the Sheep Mountain anticline of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, areas of red-bed bleaching within the Chugwater Formation correspond spatially with known hydrocarbon deposits. Malhotra et al. (1989) outlined bleached areas from Landsat TM imagery by a decrease in the ratio of bands 3 1 in conjunction with an increase in total reflected radiance. 

Malhotra, R.V., Bimic, R.W. and Johnson, G.D., 1989. Detection of surficial changes associated with hydrocarbon seepage. Sheep Mountain anticline. Bighorn basin, Wyoming. Proc. Seventh Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Exploration Geology, Calgary, pp. 1097-1110. 

The major reservoirs of natural CO occur around the Permian Basin area. Sheep Mountain, in southeastern Colorado is estimated to contain one trillion cubic feet (TCF) of CO2 of 97% purity. Productive capacity is approximately 300 MCF per day. Other important sources include Brano Dome in New Mexico with reserves of 5 TCF and with total productive capacity of approximately 350 MCF per day. The McElmo Dome has reserves of greater than 8 TCF (97% purity) of the same productive capacity as the Brano Dome Unit. The potential for the McElmo Dome is believed to be approximately 1 billion cubic feet per day. In addition, other units include Jackson Dome, Mississippi (1 TCF proven) and the LaBrage area of southwestern Wyoming which is believed to have reserves in excess of 20 TCF. These data, based on the 1984 National Petroleum Council study of enhanced oil recovery, indicate that the aggregate supply is approximately 2 billion cubic feet per day. 

Sheep Mountain Table, Shannon County, S. D. Erionite... 

In the last ten to fifteen years it has become apparent that enzootic disease of the muscles of sheep and cattle causes considerable economic loss. Muscular dystrophy of sheep and of cattle has been recorded in many countries, including all European countries, Russia, Japan, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. As economic problems, enzootic dystrophies are particularly serious in Scotland, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, parts of Italy, and areas of America bordering on the Rocky Mountains. The remainder of this paper is concerned with the role of vitamin E and of other factors in the etiology of muscular dystrophy. It is important to deal separately with what may be called the experimental dystrophies of cattle and sheep and the enzootic ones. The... 

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