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Ovis ammon (argali)

Synonyms: Capra ammon

Wikipedia Abstract

The argali, or the mountain sheep (species Ovis ammon) is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of Central Asia (Himalaya, Tibet, Altay).
View Wikipedia Record: Ovis ammon

Infraspecies

Ovis ammon ammon
Ovis ammon collium
Ovis ammon comosa
Ovis ammon darwini
Ovis ammon europea
Ovis ammon hodgsonii
Ovis ammon karelini
Ovis ammon nigrimontana
Ovis ammon polii (Pamir sheep)
Ovis ammon severtzovi

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Ovis ammon

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.31
EDGE Score: 2.54
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  352.741 lbs (160.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  7.496 lbs (3.40 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 1 month
Male Maturity [1]  2 years 3 months
Gestation [1]  5 months 20 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  5.543 feet (169 cm)
Weaning [1]  4 months 15 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Predators

Canis lupus (Wolf)[4]
Homo sapiens (man)[5]
Lynx lynx (Eurasian Lynx)[4]
Panthera pardus (Leopard)[5]
Uncia uncia (Snow leopard)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Ovis ammon, Alexander K. Fedosenko and David A. Blank, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 773, pp. 1–15 (2005)
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7International Flea Database
♦ 8Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0