Letters to Editor
nature 65, 127-127 (12 December 1901) | doi:10.1038/065127c0
The Value of the Horns in Bighorn Wild Sheep as Ear-Trumpets
GEORGE WHERRY
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IN the case of spiral-horned domestic sheep, as observed chiefly in the Alps, the ear is as large as is usual in sheep, and the horn (which grows homonymously, i. e. the right horn has a right spiral direction and the left a left) curls round the ear in such a fashion that the ear caged in the open spiral is confined to certain limits by the curves of the horn and lies in the long axis of the open spiral of the horn, from which it only now and then escapes by accident.
