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Ugh, I don’t really buy the swamp thing; sheep are creatures of fields. Plus none of the pictures depict scenes of swamps. Other than that this is quite neat.
by jackyinger 5y ago
Ugh, I don’t really buy the swamp thing; sheep are creatures of fields. Plus none of the pictures depict scenes of swamps. Other than that this is quite neat.
This rekindles some of my fond memories of stilting as a child. The long walking stick is a great idea; much easier to keep from falling. Perhaps I should make a set. :)
- seszett 5y agoIt's just called "the heaths" (les landes) in French, and heaths do support sheep. But I have indeed also heard the story of how it used to be a large marsh, so I guess it was simply a patchwork of marshes and heaths. In any case, the area seems much too large to me to have been a single large swamp.
- Broken_Hippo 5y agoIt doesn't say swamps - it says marshes. Marshes aren't swamps and do not have the deep, all-year standing water. [1] And I have seen sheep in this environment: Farmers let the sheep roam mountaintops in Norway. Some of that land is marsh - and the ground gets, for lack of better words, squishy. Sometimes, you'll step and water might come over your shoe, but it is just as likely to come halfway up. I thought a marsh would have been more similar to a swamp before I actually was in a marsh. I have heard that every once in a while, they'll have to help a sheep out of some of the deeper areas, but this isn't enough of an issue to stop the practice. [1]https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/what-the-difference-marsh-vs-swamp-vs-wetland#:~:text=The%20difference%20between%20the%20two,life%2C%20according%20to%20National%20Geographic https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/wha....