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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Ovis nivicola
- Commons category
- Ovis nivicola
- gestation period
- 175
- taxon common name
- Schneeschaf
- short name
- O. nivicola
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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.