Mouflon

Descended from a wild sheep called the mouflon, it quickly spread westward to Cyprus, Rhodes and Western Europe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The mouflon is a large animal; he is fleet as a stag, armed with horns and thick hoofs, covered with coarse hair, and dreads neither the inclemency of the sky nor the voracity of the wolf. ❋ Unknown (1848)

This was once the hunting grounds for Tito and his Communist elites -- packed with European mouflon, chamois, boar, and bear. ❋ Richard Bangs (2010)

I shot a mouflon off a mountain top near Fort Davis back in the 80s and there was nothing easy about it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Light brown or moorit in colour, they have definite mouflon pattern markings to include white underparts around the eyes, lower jaw, belly, knees and inside lower leg and tail together with a rump patch. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Two rare and endemic herbivores, mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) and Corsican red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus), still persist in the Sardinian forests. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Two rare and endemic herbivore subspecies, mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) and Corsican red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus), persist on islands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The native vertebrate fauna of 29 species is not extensive: 5 bats, and 3 reptiles plus 5 introduced species: mouflon Ovis gmelini musimon, introduced for the hunt in 1970, Algerian hedgehog Atelerix algiris, rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, house mouse and black rat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Of these, the mouflon is to be eradicated and the rabbits controlled. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These include ruffled mouflon or Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia (I), once thought extinct in the area, caracal Felis caracal, cheetah Acinonyx jubatus (V) and dorcas gazelle Gazella dorcas (V), reed cat Felis chaus and sand cat F. margarita. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The wild hog, the mouflon, the bison, and the wolf; are perfectly exempt from malady, and invariably die either from external violence or natural old age. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A collective burial at Tell Abraq, left, yielded 4,000-year-old artifacts, including a gold pendant, right, depicting a pair of long-horned mouflon, or mountain goats. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Gold pendant depicting goats or mouflon (Courtesy Daniel T. Potts) [LARGERIMAGE] ❋ Unknown (1998)

The mouflon, urial, and argali still exist in the mountains of Central Asia, and a European subspecies of mouflon is also found in the Mediterranean, but only on Corsica, Cyprus, and Sardinia. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Some (for instance, the Asian mouflon and the urial) have rates of effective reproduction up to 1.6 lambs per ewe, more than twice the average of most domestic types, especially under the conditions where these wild creatures live. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Also, in Cyprus similar mouflon x sheep hybrids have shown considerable promise. ❋ Unknown (1991)

* Their wild ancestor was almost certainly the mouflon (Outs orientalis). ❋ Unknown (1991)