European mouflon

Mouflon
Domesticated
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: Ovis
Species:
O. aries
Subspecies:
O. a. musimon
Trinomial name
Ovis aries musimon
A young ram
Two rams and two ewes
Female mouflon with young immediately after birth
Mouflon from Brehms Tierleben
Mouflon ram
Mouflon rams in the Eifel Park, Gondorf
Few of the mouflon living at Thomayer Hospital in Prague

The European mouflon is a wild subspecies of the primitive domestic sheep. It is found in Europe and western Asia. It is originally from western Asia.