Hirta

Detached Holiday Cottage with views of Outer Hebrides Isle of Skye

Cottages Scotland (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009

Detached Holiday Cottage with views of Outer Hebrides, Isle of Skye. Well-placed on the hillside to enjoy magnificent coastal views across the sea to the Outer Hebrides, this delightful detached property, Hirta , is an ideal retreat to unwind and relax at any time of year. Standing alone and accessed by a track, its location allows the splendour of this unique and famous romantic island to be appreciated....

Climate Change Shrinks Sheep 5% in 25 Years

Green Options (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009

Wild sheep on the island of Hirta off the shore of Scotland are smaller than 25 years ago, and scientists have found climate change to be the cause. On average these wild sheep are weighing in at 5 percent smaller than 25 years ago, an indication that climate change can have a rapid effect on natural populations and a sign of possible more widespread changes in future, researchers said on Thursday....

Climate change is shrinking sheep

Earth Frenzy Radio Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009

Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research. Scientists say milder winters help smaller sheep to survive, resulting in this "paradoxical decrease in size". Classic evolutionary theory would predict that wild sheep gradually get bigger, as the stronger, larger animals survive into adulthood and reproduce. Since 1985, the sheep have decreased...

• Climate change and the mystery of the shrinking sheep - BeMoreEco

Changing climate, shrinking sheep

Discovery News : Earth (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009

For centuries now, a wild breed of sheep has been grazing on the island of Hirta off the coast of northern Scotland. Part of the St. Kilda archipelago, it is the remotest part of the British Isles, and this isolation...

Tour Scotland Hirta Glendale Skye Holiday Cottage

Tour Scotland (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009

Tour Scotland Hirta Glendale Skye Holiday Cottage . Well-placed on the hillside to enjoy magnificent coastal views across the sea to the Outer Hebrides, this delightful detached property is an ideal retreat on the Isle of Skye to unwind and relax at any time of year. Standing alone and accessed by a track, its location allows the splendour of this unique and famous romantic island to be appreciated....

Climate Change And The Mystery Of The Shrinking Sheep

Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009

Milder winters are causing Scotland's wild breed of Soay sheep to get smaller, despite the evolutionary benefits of possessing a large body. (Credit: iStockphoto) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (July 4, 2009) — Milder winters are causing Scotland's wild breed of Soay sheep to get smaller, despite the evolutionary benefits of possessing a large body, according to new research. The new study...

Report from the Middle: International Sheep Shrinking

MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Sheep Shrink just like your sweater in the Dryer -- Wire Report says: RFTM by Pat Darnell and the EAGLE I r ead the local newspaper, The Eagle , for Friday July 3rd, Bryan/College Station, in anticipation of Happy News for the Fourth Holiday. But, of course, I am drawn immediately to an I nternational Wire Report ... ever do that? I also read Magazines backwards, or back to front. Oh that might explain...

Global warming shrinking sheep, well no but BBC Pravda report it as fact.

The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

Hat tip to an all seeing eye for this one. So, who would have figured that climate change is shrinking sheep in Scotland? Scientists first began studying Soay sheep, on the island of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago, in 1985. Since then, the sheep have decreased in size by 5% - their legs getting steadily shorter and their body weight decreasing. This strange phenomenon was first reported in 2007,...

Global Warming is Shrinking the Soay Sheep of Scotland

OneToRemember and EnergyBook (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Photo: Wikipedia , CC The Incredible Shrinking Sheep! Could the changing climate be shrinking animals? That seems to be the case for the Soay sheep of Scotland. "The island of Hirta, on the western coast of Scotland, is home to a special breed of sheep. Soay sheep, named after a neighbouring island, are the most primitive breed of domestic sheep and have lived on the isles of St Kilda for at...

• Global Warming is Shrinking the Soay Sheep of Scotland - Treehugger
• Global Warming is Shrinking the Soay Sheep of Scotland - Brainicane

Shrinking Sheep

Suburban Guerrilla (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

I thought this was interesting in an “omigod we’re all gonna die” kind of way: Global warming seems to be shrinking sheep. On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland’s island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London. “The decrease in [...]

Climate vote threatens some Dems' careers...

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Climate vote threatens some Dems' careers - US Politics - NJ.com “Tom Perriello’s national energy tax vote was the defining moment of his short career,” NRCC spokesman Andy Seres said, adding that voters in his district who once thought of him as “that nice young man … is actually a smug globalist who cares more about his Daily Kos cred than the farmers, laborers and...

Sheep shrink because of global warming

Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Global warming seems to be shrinking sheep, according to new research. On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers.

Baaad climate news for sheep

The Eagle Nation (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a study published i ...

Study: Climate change shrinking sheep

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson, of Imperial College London.

Evolution and climate change: Survival of the less fit

The Economist (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

The mystery of Scotland’s shrinking sheep may have been solved ON THE remote island of Hirta, in the St Kilda archipelago beyond the Outer Hebrides, live hundreds of wild Soay sheep. Over the past 20 years biologists studying this primitive breed, which has not changed much since the Bronze Age, have noticed that the sheep are getting smaller. This was a puzzle because, in general, bigger animals...