. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Mammal Study 28s 3. What are the chief enemies of sheep in the wilderness? How do the sheep escape them? Describe the foot and leg of the sheep and explain how they help the animal to escape its enemies. We say of cer- tain men that they "follow hke a flock of ; Why do we make this comparison? What has this habit of following the leader to do with the escape of sheep from wolves and bears? 4. How do sheep fight? Do both rams and ewes have horns? Do they both fight ? Ho
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Mammal Study 28s 3. What are the chief enemies of sheep in the wilderness? How do the sheep escape them? Describe the foot and leg of the sheep and explain how they help the animal to escape its enemies. We say of cer- tain men that they "follow hke a flock of ; Why do we make this comparison? What has this habit of following the leader to do with the escape of sheep from wolves and bears? 4. How do sheep fight? Do both rams and ewes have horns? Do they both fight ? How does the sheep show anger ? Give your experience with a cross cosset lamb. 5. Do you think that sheep can see and hear well? What is the posi- tion of the sheep's ears when it is peaceful? When there is danger? How do the sheep's eyes differ from those of the cow? 6. Does the sheep chew its cud like the cow? Describe the actionas performed by the sheep. How is this habit of cud chewing of use to the wild sheep ? 7. Describe a young lamb. Why has it such long legs? How do es it use its tail to express joy? What happens to this tail later? What games have you seen lambs play? Tell all the stories of lambs that you know. 8. How much of sheep language do you understand? What is the use to the wild flock of the constant bleating? 9. For what purposes do we keep sheep? How many breeds of sheep do you know? What are the chief differences between the English breeds and the Merinos? Where and for what purposes is the milk of sheep used? 10. Have you ever seen a collie looking after a herd of sheep? If so, describe his actions. Did you ever know of dogs killing sheep ? At what time of day or night was this done? Did you ever know of one dog attacking a flock of sheep alone. What is there in the dog's ancestry which makes two or three dogs, when hunting, give chase and attack sheep ?. Photo by Gerrit Miller. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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