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1. Sheep (Oakland Zoo)
   Provides facts and a picture. "Only in the last 200 years have they been bred primarily for meat."

2. Cloning and Bioethics (CNN)
   President Bill Clinton asks bioethics commission to look at sheep cloning. Provides links on bioethics related to cloning.

3. Dogs - Herding Group (Planet-Pets.com)
   Provides descriptions and pictures of the Australian Cattle Dog, Bearded Collie, Belgian Malinois, Belgian Sheepdog, Belgian Tervuren, Border Collie, Bouvier des Flandres, Briard, Collie, German Shepherd, Old English Sheepdog, Puli, Shetland Sheepdog , Welsh Corgi Cardigan, and Welsh Corgi Pembroke. 06-07

4. Livestock - Breeds of Livestock (Oklahoma State University)
   Explains how breeds are defined. Provides information on endangered breeds of Cattle, Horses, Goats, Sheep, and Swine. 10-00

5. Animals Clipart (ClipsAhoy.com)
   Provides Bears, Birds, Bugs, Cats, Cows, Dogs, Donkeys and Mules, Elephants, Foxes, Fish and Water, Horses, Moose, Pets, Pigs, Rabbits, Reptiles, Rodents, and Sheep. 2-01

6. -Vaccine to Reduce Methane Emissions (NewScientist.com)
   "You cannot stop a sheep belching or farting, but you can make sure its eructations are less damaging to the environment."
   
   "Belches and, to a far lesser degree, farts from sheep, cows and other farm animals account for around 20% of global methane emissions. The gas is a potent source of global warming because, volume for volume, it traps 23 times as much heat as the more plentiful carbon dioxide." 9-04

7. -Vaccine to Reduce Methane Emissions (Science Daily)
   "A major vaccination programme designed to slash methane production by sheep and cattle is underway in Australia."
   
   Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas. Widespread vaccination could significantly reduce the animals' contributions to global warming, say the vaccine's developers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. Vaccination could also boost the animals' growth, they believe."
   
   "If all cattle worldwide were vaccinated, global methane emissions would be cut by about five per cent, Newbold calculates. As a greenhouse gas, methane is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. 'A five per cent reduction would be considerable,' he says." 9-04

8. Threatened Species in Western United States (SaveBiogems.org)
   Provides information on the habitats needing protection for the buffalo, gray wolf, grizzly bear, elk, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, lynx, and Yellowstone cutthroat trout. These animals are threatened by oil and gas development plans by the federal government. 02-06

9. -Vaccine to Reduce Methane Emissions (Environmental Science and Technology)
   "The country's 140 million sheep and cattle produce one-seventh of Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions, measured in carbon dioxide equivalents. Globally, agriculture is estimated to account for half of the methane liberated as a result of human activity. Domestic ruminants produce two-thirds of this gas." 03-07

10. Editorial: Meet Al Gore (Time.com)
    "He leads from the front, and if some sheep in the family stray, he's not stressed. He's not a zealot. Leaders often shout orders; generals bark; bellicose preachers, to save our souls, get gothic on our asses. But Al speaks in measured tones. He shows slides. He has an almost embarrassing faith in the power of facts to persuade both believer and skeptic. His enduring and overarching trait is, as it turns out, the pursuit of truth ... scientific truth, spiritual truth. That — and grace. Right now, he is an America the world needs to meet."
    
    Gore: "The north polar ice cap, according to the best scientists in the world, fell off a cliff this fall. The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world."
    
    "I think we're making progress; it's just that nothing has matched the scale of the response that is truly needed. The unprecedented nature of this crisis does make it difficult to communicate. We naturally tend to confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. But we have become capable of doing catastrophic damage without realizing it. We've quadrupled population in less than a century, amplified the power of technology many thousands of times over, and we haven't matched those changes with a shift in our thinking that lets us take into account the long-term consequences of our actions." 12-07

11. -04-03-09 Strong Kids May Hold Genetic Secrets (MSNBC News)
    "Wells explained that virtually every animal on Earth has a gene that produces a muscle growth-inhibiting protein called myostatin. High levels of myostatin make it hard for the body to build muscle, and low levels of myostatin allow muscle to grow."
    
    "After the mice and cattle discovery, scientists found natural mutations in some dogs and sheep, but never in a human until 2004." 04-09