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snow sheep

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Also known as Ovis nivicola

species of mammal

Species

Least Concern

via IUCN

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Encyclopedic overview

The snow sheep (Ovis nivicola), or Siberian bighorn sheep, is a species of sheep from the mountainous areas in the northeast of Siberia. One subspecies, the Putorana snow sheep (Ovis nivicola borealis), lives isolated from the other forms in the Putoran Mountains.

Subspecies

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “snow sheep” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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