Explore all 8 wild sheep species including all 6 members in the Ovis genus and two other closely related animals.

Chapters
0:00 Thinhorn sheep
1:42 Bighorn sheep
3:12 Barbary sheep
4:48 Mouflon
6:10 Urial
7:02 Bharal / Himalayan blue sheep
8:02 Argali
8:58 Snow sheep

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Creative Commons Attribution
Photos
Sierra Nevada Bighorn sheep California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Pine Creek Sierra Nevada Ewes Steve Yaeger & CDFW
Asiatic mouflon in Qom, Iran Moosa Mazinanian
Anatolian Mouflon in Bijar, Iran Amin Ghaffari
Argali in KoshAgachskiy, Mongolia Rayon Siburhan
Mongolian Argali in KoshAgachskiy Rayon Andrewbazdyrev
Urial in Jajarm, Iran Moosa Mazinanian

Maps
Satellite Imagery NASA
Thinhorn sheep Government of British Columbia
Bighorn sheep Whiting et al 2023
Aoudad Wright et al 2022
Mouflon, Urial & Snow sheep Christophe cagé
Bharal 蕭漫
Argali subspecies Altaileopard

Editorial Attribution
Snow sheep stamp Olga Popova/shutterstock.com

Media & Attribution
Unless stated above, all still images are used under license from Shutterstock.com. Thank you to everyone who makes their work available for use. Covering all of the wonderful species in these videos would not be possible without your incredible work.

Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

Thinhorn sheep
https://www.ualberta.ca/science/news/...
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm...
https://yukonwildlife.ca/wildlife/thi...
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/en...

Bighorn sheep
https://laist.com/news/climateenviro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bighorn...
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/...

Aoudad / Barbary sheep
https://www.britannica.com/animal/aoudad
https://www.dudleyzoo.org.uk/animal/s...
https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/...
https://tpwd.texas.gov/stateparks/bi...
https://www.ultimateungulate.com/Arti...
References to Ventral Mane terminology
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/p...
https://www.pronkjag.com/huntingbarb...

Mouflon
https://gsejournal.biomedcentral.com/...
https://www.raisingsheep.net/largest...
https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/do...
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/5...

Urial
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...
https://www.britannica.com/animal/urial
https://www.nathab.com/knowbeforeyo...

Bharal / Himalayan blue sheep
https://www.ultimateungulate.com/Arti...
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories...
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...

Argali
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
https://www.britannica.com/animal/argali
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...

Snow sheep
https://www.ultimateungulate.com/Arti...
https://www.britannica.com/animal/sno...
https://sierrabighorn.org/naturalhis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_sheep


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