Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 2 species of sheep, in the family Bovidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 2 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Its horns grow throughout its life, and their rings give away the animal's age.
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The growth rings on its horns work like a tree's: each winter leaves a mark, and by counting them the exact age of a ram can be known.
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It is the only wild sheep in the world with a pure white coat, effective camouflage during the eight months a year that its mountains are under snow.
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Its pupil is rectangular and horizontal, which gives it a field of view of some 300 degrees and lets it watch for predators almost without turning its head.
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It recognises and remembers for years the faces of several dozen individual sheep and particular people, according to the neuroscience studies carried out on the species.
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It was among the first hoofed animals to be domesticated, some 11,000 years ago, from the Asiatic mouflon in south-west Asia.
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