Herds

... area long enough, or faced with limited forage, they will eat nearly every green thing in sight - which is exactly what occured in the historic herds of thousands across the western us. They would leave a devastated wasteland in their wake, as the shepherds moved them along. The biggest problem ...

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... 1) Lions prey on Zebras even though they are (Zebras) striped. However, stripes might reduce the individual risk as long as the animals stay in herds. 2) Stripe-Patterns of Zebras vary from species to species (there are four with more subspecies). There is a significant correlation between stripe ...

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... and goats. *One theory is that transhumance just sort of developed by itself out of the seasonal wandering involved in following wild animal herds.

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... province of Quebec forbids the owning of hedgehogs as pets and the state of California forbids the ownership of pet gerbils. Cattle and deer herds can easily be infected with bovine TB. More than one third of the globe is infected with TB. Seven stales in the US bear over half the cases of ...

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