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- Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. In montane regions (vertical...
- Alpine transhumance is transhumance as practiced in the Alps, that is, a seasonal droving of grazing livestock between the valleys in winter and the high...
- outgrowing the available local grazing and encouraging transhumance to more distant pastures. This transhumance was a frequent cause of dispute between the shepherds...
- True nomads follow an irregular pattern of movement, in contrast with transhumance, where seasonal pastures are fixed. However, this distinction is often...
- Organization. Retrieved 24 October 2021. "The Transhumance". Ariege.com. Retrieved 2016-02-01. "The traditional transhumance of pyrenean horses". Archived from the...
- In the crop growing season, transhumance is practised on a broad scale in the northern Ethiopian highlands, as farmland and its stubble can no longer be...
- (something that can occur daily or even within a few hours); as well as transhumance, where herders routinely move animals between different seasonal pastures...
- Shepherdesspainting by Bouguereau Swineherd Trailing of the Sheep Transhumance Yak herding Gospel of John 10:11 Copeland, L.; Wescombe, P. (1966). Inventory...
- and yaks. This nomadic tradition continues to function seasonally (see transhumance) as herding families return to the high mountain pasture (or jailoo)...
- : 552  It was traditionally used to protect flocks during the annual transhumance to high summer pasture in the Pyrenees.: 552  It is a distinct and separate...