AUSTIN, Texas — Desert bighorn sheep in Texas are experiencing a significant population decline due to pneumonia, prompting Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) to collaborate with conservation ...
Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube Few people have spent time gazing into a sheep’s eyes, but if you have, you may have noticed something very strange about their pupils. Instead of ...
The pupils of the sheep in this clip appear as dark, horizontal rectangles. They are an opening in the center of the iris (the colored part of the eye). The role of the pupil is to let light in ...
Here we will examine why sheep have rectangular pupils and how this impacts their vision. To understand why sheep have rectangular pupils we first need to consider the environments in which they live ...