The sheep huddle together, bleeding from the nose, aborting lambs or suffocating on saliva as they succumb to bluetongue, a virus sweeping through flocks on the Italian island of Sardinia.

Her population is outnumbered by sheep 3:1. It brought us the words sardine (where once they were plentiful) and sardonic (meaning of Sardinia). The four moors on the flag of Sardinia (as opposed ...

Sardinia is an island divided between mare e ... lush with grass, the once-scrawny sheep now plump and winsome, their long-legged lambs gambolling around in the open countryside.