. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. m .1 paiiuing liy K. I, ter Meulen THE SHEEP i6: As for food, they prefer the short,fine grasses, nourishing and aromaiic,which grow on dry, calcareous moun-tain slopes and rolling hillsides, not,however, disdaining those that growin saline places, for they love salt,like the goat, the deer, the ass, andthe horse. All sheep, but especiallyyoung lambs, like to climb the accliv-ities that they see about them. Theirskill in this direction they have doubt-less derived from their ancestors, thewild mountain sheep. They havenever ha
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. m .1 paiiuing liy K. I, ter Meulen THE SHEEP i6: As for food, they prefer the short,fine grasses, nourishing and aromaiic,which grow on dry, calcareous moun-tain slopes and rolling hillsides, not,however, disdaining those that growin saline places, for they love salt,like the goat, the deer, the ass, andthe horse. All sheep, but especiallyyoung lambs, like to climb the accliv-ities that they see about them. Theirskill in this direction they have doubt-less derived from their ancestors, thewild mountain sheep. They havenever had, however, the agilit\ ofgoats, which are native born to moun-tains and rocks. The sheep is so closely related tothe goat that there is very little dif-ference in the skeletons of the twospecies, and what there is lies chiefly in thehollow profile of the face of the goat and therounded profile of the sheep. In other respects,the sheep is unlike the goat in temperament,in character, in coat, in the shape of its horns,and in its peculiar odor, which differs in all.
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