isaacashe published Nottingham scientists find reason for spring lambs - and why...

Scientists in Nottingham have discovered the reason why lambs are born in springtime - because flocks of sheep get frisky on dark winter nights.A study, led by academics at the Universities of Nottingham and Bristol, has shown that the long cold nights cause sheep to create the hormone melatonin in the pineal gland in their brains.This change inside the brains is the reason that rams and ewes become horny in the wintertime and is the first physical link discovered between animal fertility and...