Herding

Herdinging is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group.

Herding can be performed by people or trained animals such as herding dogs. Some animals instinctivly gather together as a herd while some predators, such as wolves and dogs have instinctive herding abilities.

Herding is used in agriculture to control domesticated animals. The people whose occupation it is to herd animals often have herd added to the name of the animal they are herding to describe their occupation (shepherd, goatherd). These -herds often use dogs to assist them and a competitive herding sport has developed in some countries where the combined skill of man and dog is tested and judged in a Trial. See sheepdog trials for more information.

When people are herded it is often known as crowd control. Herd behavior is an excessive collective behavior, for example in stock market bubbles

See also: List of collective nouns for non-human mammals

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of Russia.

He aroused some further criticism from the international community after issuing a decree banning Jehovah's Witnesses in 1995.

In recent years, Ardzinba has faced criticism for both failing to bring stability to Abkhazia and his increasingly low public profile. He has not appeared in public for more than two years. As a result, the role of governing the state has been increasingly left to Prime Minister Raul Khajimba.

He has been in extremely poor health and has been undergoing treatment in Moscow for some time. Despite increasing calls from the opposition (particularly the Amtsakhara movement) for him to resign, he has stated that he will finish his term, which ends in October 2004. There have also been calls for him to be impeached, but although the Abkhaz Constitution allows for this, the process would likely not be completed before the end of his term. He is unable to run for a third term, due to constitutional restrictions, and it is unlikely that his health would enable him to do so even if this were allowed.

He has not yet announced a preference for a candidate to replace him. It had been suggested that he had favored current Prime Minister Khajimba, but recent speculation has suggested that he may instead support former Prime Minister