Information Sign (Mouflon) - Brno, Czech Republic
Posted by: puczmeloun
N 49° 12.365 E 016° 31.406
33U E 610965 N 5451482
Information sign about Mouflons in Kohoutovice forests
Waymark Code: WMKD8C
Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 03/24/2014
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The mouflon (Ovis)...
...is a subspecies group of the wild sheep Ovis orientalis. Populations of O. orientalis can be partitioned into the mouflons (orientalis group) and the urials (vignei group). The mouflon is thought to be one of the two ancestors for all modern domestic sheep breeds.