I swear, lambs are totally nuts! One day, I biked along a meadow, when I suddenly witnessed some strange white movements from the corner of my eye. Some lambs were jumping around like crazy, and for a moment I wondered if they might be suffering Mad Sheep Disease. After watching them for a while I discovered at least some logic though. Their game was a bit rough, but they seemed to have their own lamb rules and associated lamb logic.
1. Lamb Stacking
Taking a firm mother sheep as a solid base, a nice lamb stack can be built, up to ten lambs high!
Goal: stacking as many lambs on one sheep as possible.
Building a solid base for the Lamb Stack
Negotiating positions: Extremely important for making a good 'Lamb Stack'
There´s enough space for many more lambs. Eventually it became a tower of 7 (!) lambs. Unfortunately it crashed prematurely, so I couldn't take a photo.
2. Leap Lambing / Leap sheeping
Mother plays 'frog' by laying motionless, while the kids jump simultaneously or by turns over her.
Her head can be used to jump even higher.
Warming up...
A perfect leaplamb /leapsheep
An A for landing!
3. Levitating Lamb
The rules are very simple: Everything is allowed as long as your paws don't touch the ground. Screw gravity!
Calmly hovering through the meadow
Just floating over the mother sheep
The real show-offs go pretty fast
And when the sun goes down, you just float quietly to the stable. Tomorrow is yet another day full of new jumps!
There's only one thing I just can't put my finger on: How does such a cute and enthusiastic lamb transform in a kinda boring sweater on legs...? Where in the process from lamb to sheep does it go wrong...?
Text & photos: Roeselien Raimond