Sixteen percent of Australia’s greenhouse emissions come from agriculture, so scientists there are busy trying to solve the problem of … burping sheep?
"Ninety per cent of the methane that sheep and cattle and goats produce comes from the rumen, and that’s burped out," John Goopy from the New South Wales Department of Industry and Investment told ABC.
"Not much goes behind – that’s horses."
The scientists in New South Wales have been conducting experiments in specially designed pens where they measure how much gas sheep emit by burping. They have found, from tests on 200 sheep so far, that the more they eat, the more they belch.
The scientists’ goal is to breed sheep that burp less: Link
Check out this awesome DIY art using sheep and LEDs. Watch as the sheep make wonderful array of geometric lines on the field in the dark.
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No sheepdog? No problem! This Chinese shepherd found that he could control his flock of sheep with a poster of a wolf!
Du Hebing, of Xi’an, told Huashang Daily that he shot the picture by chance.
"After visiting Qinling Wild Animal Park, on the way home I saw a group of sheep walking along the road with a man holding a picture following behind them," he said.
Du said he burst out laughing when he realised it was a picture of a wolf. "The man was using the wolf picture to scare the sheep and drive them ahead – it was a really funny scene," he said.
Link (Photo: Du Hebing)
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