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(ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.

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Australia New-Zealand

(ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.

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（動物行動学）母親を失った子羊が、近隣の灌木や岩などの物体に愛着を移す現象にある子羊

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A placer kept bleating at a scrubby bush, mistaking it for its mother.

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母親を失い、近くの茂みや岩などに愛着を移してしまった孤児の子羊が、茂みを母親と間違えて鳴き続けていた。

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(ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.

This is a “placer” sheep, as it is called. The prerequisites to this condition are that the young sheep must be still nursing, but must have begun to nibble grass. It must be the young of a mother that has been somewhat isolated, away from the corral and away from the herd, by herself out on the prairie. Now, when the mother dies, the lamb remains close to the mother′s body […] .

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