Examples of using Soay in English and their translations into French
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Soay, Inner Hebrides.
The thousand-year-old species of wild sheep in Soay.
Soay is a small islet located a short distance from Hirta Island.
Highland Cattle the Shetland Pony Soay Sheep.
Encounters with Soay sheep are part of the outing.
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It consists of 4 islands, Hirta,Dùn, Soay and Boreray.
Soay has a primitive hut known as"Taigh Dugan"(Dugan's house.
It is comprised of four volcanic islands: Hirta,Dun, Soay and Boreray.
Soay is 0.5 kilometres(0.31 mi) north-west of Hirta, Boreray 6 kilometres(4 mi) to the northeast.
It also exists a species of black wild sheep on Soay island.
This suggests that Soay sheep are more resilient to parasitism than domestic breeds.
Numbers vary from 600 to 1,700 on Hirta, and200 remain on Soay.
She has worked primarily on long-term studies of soay sheep on St Kilda, Scotland, and red deer on the Isle of Rum.
This rooing trait survives today in unrefined breeds such as the Soay and many Shetlands.
Soay sheep are believed to have lived there since a period that could have coincided with the taming of sheep, i.e.
They observe the local fauna and flora,in particular the emblematic wild sheep of Soay.
The Soay has been called the only living example of the small, primitive sheep which inhabited the British Isles before the coming of the Norsemen and Romans.
St Kilda is a long extinct volcano comprising four islands, Hirta;Dun; Soay and Boreray.
They were often formerly known as"St Kilda" sheep, although unlike Soay and Boreray sheep they are probably not in fact from the St Kilda archipelago.
In 1932, after the evacuation of theinhabitants of Hirta Island, about a hundred sheep were transferred there from the Isle of Soay.
Indeed, the Soay, along with other Northern European breeds with short tails, naturally rooing fleece, diminutive size, and horns in both sexes, are closely related to ancient sheep.
Today the farm is used to farm with an ancient breed of sheep named Soay and Kangaroos(Wallabies.
In the study of natural selection,the population of Soay sheep that remain on the island of Hirta have been used to explore the relation of body size and coloration to reproductive success.
There are various notable domesticated Scottish mammal breeds including Highland Cattle,the Shetland Pony, Soay Sheep and Scottish Terrier.
On Hirta and Soay, the sheep prefer the Plantago pastures, which grow well in locations exposed to sea spray and include red fescue(Festuca rubra), sea plantain(Plantago maritima) and sea pink Armeria maritima.
It has isolated populations of feral goats Capra hircus andferal sheep(Ovis aries), such as the herd of 1,000 Soay sheep on St Kilda.
A number of Soay sheep were translocated from Soay to another of the St Kilda group, the island of Hirta by the Marquess of Bute in the 1930s, after the human population and their sheep were evacuated.
The remainder of the island is treated as a nature reserve with wild Eriskay ponies,Saanen goats, Soay sheep and the replanting of native trees.
Soay sheep come in several colors, and researchers investigated why the larger, darker sheep were in decline; this occurrence contradicted the rule of thumb that larger members of a population tend to be more successful reproductively.
Eventually, Carmeuse plans to replacethe mechanical maintenance(biennial mowing) of the grassland with grazing Soay sheep(Carmeuse already has a growing herd in another one of its quarries), which will perform this task perfectly without any human intervention.
