1. There are about 1.2 billion sheep on this planet. China, with spherical 200 million, has higher than twice as many as another nation.
2. There are roughly seven sheep per explicit particular person in New Zealand and three sheep per explicit particular person in Wales.
3. Mongolia has 35 events as many sheep as people, higher than another nation nonetheless throughout the Falkland Islands, a UK overseas territory, the decide is 150.
4. An grownup female sheep is a ewe, a male is a ram or tup and a castrated male is a wether.
5. There are no entrance enamel in a sheep’s larger jaw. The lower enamel chew in direction of a tricky pad. The pupils of a sheep’s eyes are rectangular.
6. The frequent UK explicit particular person eats 1.9kg (4.2lb)of lamb a 12 months.
7. Sheep can recall the faces of 50 totally different sheep for two years. Eight per cent of rams are homosexual.
8. Sheep have been first domesticated for his or her wool and meat spherical 10,000 BC.
9. Sheep have further mentions throughout the King James Bible than another animal. Lambs come second. Rams come fifth after lion and ox.
10. In England and Wales it is illegal to allow your canine to worry sheep on agricultural land.