A ram standing on a cliff in Scotland
John Guidi/robertharding/Alamy
When feminine sheep get the choice, they’d relatively mate with a subordinate male than a dominant one.
Dominant rams normally mate with ewes far more usually than lower-ranking rams do. But they’ll actually run out of sperm from mating a lot in a quick time frame.
And in the event that they fathered all of the lambs in a flock of sheep (Ovis aries), the group would have much less genetic range, which may lead to malformations and inheritable illnesses. So ewes, which typically mate with a number of males when they’re …