Ovis vignei (scientific name: Ovis vignei) is also known as Urial in English. There are 5 subspecies.Ovis vignei is a gregarious sheep, and the group size can be as high as hundreds of individuals. In Iran's "Golestan" National Park, there are herds of more than 4,000, but the average...
Snow Mountain Sheep (scientific name: Ovis nivicola) English Snow Sheep, Russia Chubuk, Snezhnyi Baran, there are 4 subspecies.Snow Mountain Sheep usually do not migrate, but will make seasonal short-distance movements. Large groups are often segregated by sex, with older males forming small groups...
Ovis gmelini, English Mouflon, Asiatic Mouflon, French Mouflón, Spanish Muflón, Russian Муфлон, has 3-5 native wild subspecies: the nominate subspecies (O.g. gmelini) and two subspecies limited to Iran: Isfahan subspecies (O.g. isphahanica) and Laristan subspecies (O. g. laristanica). Someti...
Canadian Bighorn Sheep (scientific name: Ovis canadensis) is called Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Sheep in English, Mouflon D'Amérique, Mouflon Du Canada, Mouflon Pachycère in French, Borrego Cimarrón, Carnero Del Canadá, Carnero Salvaje in Spanish, and has 8 subspecies.Canadian bighorn sheep are...
Tian Shan Argali, once the Tianshan subspecies of Argali.The Tianshan argali is generally considered to be the Tianshan subspecies of the argali (Ovis ammon). The Ungulate Taxonomy co-authored by British scholar Peter Grubb and Australian scholar Colin Groves The 2019 edition of the Convention...
Tibetan argali, also known as Tibetan argali in English, is a typical mountain animal and was once a subspecies of argali.The scientific Latin name of the Tibetan argali, one of its synonymous scientific names "Ovis ammon dalai-lamae" (also formerly "Argallo Altun Mountain subspecies&...
The Gobi argali is named Ovis darwini, and was once a subspecies of argali.The Gobi argali is generally considered to be a Gobi subspecies of the argali (Ovis ammon). It is considered an independent species in the book Ungulate Taxonomy co-authored by British scholar Peter Grubb and Australian schol...
Kazakh Argali, also known as Kasachstan Argali, was once a species of Argali.Kazakh Argali was once considered a subspecies of Ovis ammon. The 2019 edition of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) considers it an independent species, and China...
The glacial fauna has long been recognized to be closely related to the global cooling events of the Pleistocene. The animals in it also showed adaptations to cold environments, such as being huge, covered in long hair, and having body structures that can scrape snow. Mammoths and woolly rhin...