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mountain sheep

NOUN
  1. any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions

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  • The rhytina has been exterminated in the far north, the elephant seals on Kerguelen are being exterminated in the far south, and midway, in the desert mountains of Lower California a fine species of mountain sheep is rapidly being shot into oblivion. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
  • A door opens at stage left, and four small aoudads, delicately horned mountain sheep from North Africa, spring into the auction cage.
  • The solitary field is often stocked with brown Welsh mountain sheep.
  • The East is the nesting place of the eagle and hawk, but also the home of mountain sheep and African cheetahs.
  • 'Instead of dreary inarable wastes, as supposed in earlier times, the millions of buffalo, elk, deer, mountain sheep, the primitive inhabitants of the soil, fed by the hand of nature, attest its capacity for the abundant support of a dense population through the skilful toil of the agriculturist, dealing with the earth under the guidance of the science of the present age. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • The men wore antelope or mountain sheep skin leggings, shirts, breechcloths, and moccasins.
  • Wild populations of bighorn mountain sheep are carefully managed in North America for hunters who want a chance to shoot a ram with a trophy set of horns.
  • She sees a flock of mountain sheep. Times, Sunday Times
  • Protected here are rare species of animals, including central Asian gazelle (Procapra przewaslkii), Ustuyrt mountain sheep (Ovis ammon cycloceros), and ratel (Mellivora capensis). Central Asian northern desert
  • They have a smallholding in Devon which is home to a host of animals, including a flock of pedigree Black Welsh Mountain sheep.
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