Snow Sheep (Ovis nivicola)

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Description Русский: Снежный баран (Ovis nivicola)
Date 1898
Source Wild oxen, sheep & goats of all lands, living and extinct
Author Joseph Smit (1836–1929)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ovis_nivicola_(%3DO._canadensis_nivicola)_by_Joseph_Smit.jpg

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.
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae

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