European mouflon Harzgerode in 1906, followed by further releases in the Taunus and the Solling. In all cases, the mouflon favoured level or low-lying plains with forest cover and not, as expected, rocky, mountainous areas. Gradually they were mixed with varieties of domestic sheep, especially crossbreeding with the racka. After the European mouflon population declined during the First World War, in the German Reich alone about 2,500 were counted in 1938. After a further decline during the Second World War, the number of European mouflon worldwide in 1954 was only about 4,500. After that, numbers recovered due to careful management and grew
What Wild Ecstasy criticized the "rather simplistic narrative thread" of his book, describing it as a "mess". She wrote that, "Heidenry is difficult to follow as people appear, events suddenly happen, and few connections are drawn." She maintained that his real interest was pornography, and that he neglected other topics; she described his chapter on homosexuality as "a dry twenty-page civil rights discussion", and also accused him of giving insufficient attention to women. What Wild Ecstasy What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution is a 1997 book about the sexual revolution by John Heidenry. The book received mixed reviews.