All 8 Wild Sheep Species (Including 2 Controversial)

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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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 Kosh-Agachskiy, Mongolia - Rayon Siburhan
Mongolian Argali in Kosh-Agachskiy - 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/2016/june/dna-analysis-rewrites-the-story-of-thinhorn-sheep-during-the-last-ice-age.html
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ovis_dalli/
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=dallsheep.main
https://yukonwildlife.ca/wildlife/thinhorn-sheep/11-20-thinhorn-mountain-sheep/
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/plants-animals-ecosystems/wildlife/wildlife-conservation/wild-sheep-and-mountain-goat/thinhorn-sheep

Bighorn sheep
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/sierra-nevada-bighorn-sheep-deaths-winter-california-snow-mountain-lion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bighorn_sheep
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Bighorn-Sheep/Desert/Peninsular/Behavior
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/bighorn-sheep
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Bighorn-Sheep/Sierra-Nevada/Recovery-Program/Sheep-Facts

Aoudad / Barbary sheep
https://www.britannica.com/animal/aoudad
https://www.dudleyzoo.org.uk/animal/sheep-barbary/
https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200767
https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/big-bend-ranch/bighorn
https://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Ammotragus_lervia.html
References to Ventral Mane terminology
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ammotragus_lervia/
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_0206.pdf
https://www.pronkjag.com/hunting-barbary-sheep-in-south-africa.html

Mouflon
https://gsejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12711-020-00545-7
https://www.raisingsheep.net/largest-sheep-breed
https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.71353
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/54940218/22147055

Urial
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/urial
https://www.britannica.com/animal/urial
https://www.nathab.com/know-before-you-go/asia-the-pacific/snow-leopards-himalayas/wildlife-guide/urial/

Bharal / Himalayan blue sheep
https://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Pseudois_nayaur.html
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/where-do-snow-leopards-live-and-nine-other-snow-leopard-facts
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pseudois_nayaur/

Argali
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decades-long-effort-protect-worlds-largest-sheep-180972029/
https://www.britannica.com/animal/argali
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ovis_ammon/

Snow sheep
https://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Ovis_nivicola.html
https://www.britannica.com/animal/snow-sheep
https://sierrabighorn.org/natural-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_sheep


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