mouflon
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The mouflon or moufflon (Ovis gmelini) is a wild sheep native to Cyprus, two separate parts of Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.It is also found in parts of Europe. It is thought to be the ancestor of all modern domestic sheep breeds.
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Near Threatenedmouflon
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderArtiodactyla
- FamilyBovidae
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- Taxonomy
- Subspecies
- Relation to other sheep
- Description
- Distribution and habitat
- Behaviour and ecology
- Reproduction
- Conservation
- In culture
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The mouflon or moufflon (Ovis gmelini) is a wild sheep native to Cyprus, two separate parts of Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.It is also found in parts of Europe. It is thought to be the ancestor of all modern domestic sheep breeds.
==Taxonomy== Ovis gmelini was the scientific name proposed by Edward Blyth in 1841 for wild sheep in the Middle East. In the 19th and 20th centuries, several wild sheep were described that are considered mouflon subspecies today: Ovis ophion by Blyth in 1841 for wild sheep in Cyprus; Ovis laristanica by Nikolai Nasonov in 1909 for wild sheep in Lar in southern Iran; Ovis orientalis isphahanica by Nasonov in 1910 for wild sheep in the Zagros Mountains.