Snow Sheep (Ovis nivicola)

Query: Bighorn sheep

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Description Русский: Снежный баран. Почтовая марка из серии «Фауна России. Дикие козлы и бараны»
Date January 2013
Source http://rusmarka.ru/catalog/marka/position/24961.aspx
Author Московец А.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Russia_2013_No_1670_Ovis_nivicola.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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