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restful night's sleep. Welcome to the I Can Sleep Podcast, where I help you learn a little

and sleep a lot. I'm your host, Benjamin Boster. Tonight's episode is about sheep.

Sheep or domestic sheep are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

Although the term sheep can apply to other species in the genus Ovis,

in everyday usage, it almost always refers to domesticated sheep.

Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Arteodactyla, the even-toad Ungulates.

Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep.

An adult female is referred to as a U, an intact male as a ram, occasionally a tub, a castrated male as a weather, and a young sheep as a lamb. Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mufflin of Europe and Asia, with Iran being a geographic envelope of the domestication

center.

One of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes, sheep are raised

for fleeces, mead, and milk. A sheep's wool is most widely used animal fiber, and is usually harvested by shearing.

In commonwealth countries, ovine meat is called lamb when from younger animals, and mutton when from older ones.

In the United States, meat from both older and younger animals is usually called lamb.

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