Just not that into ewes: 'gay sheep' escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk

Designer Michael Schmidt's 36-piece collection was made from the wool of rams who have shown same-sex attractionWhen a ram tips its head back, curls its upper lip, and takes a deep breath - what is known in the world of animal husbandry as a "flehmen response" - it is often a sign of arousal. Sheep have a small sensory organ located above the roof of the mouth, and the flehmen response helps to flood it with any sex pheromones wafting about.Usually, rams flehmen when they encounter ewes during the mating period, according to Michael Stücke, a farmer with 30 years of experience raising sheep in Westphalia, Germany. But on Stücke's farm, the rams flehmen "all the time". Continue reading...