Ammotragus


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Related to Ammotragus: aoudad, African aoudad sheep, Aoudad sheep
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Noun1.Ammotragus - genus of wild sheepAmmotragus - genus of wild sheep      
genus Ammotragus
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
Bovidae, family Bovidae - true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats
Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep - wild sheep of northern Africa
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Aoudad or barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia (Pallas, 1777) is endemic to the mountain regions of North Africa throughout the Sahara (Brentjes, 1980).
Is There a Future for the Last Populations of Aoudad (Ammotragus lervia) in Northern Algeria?
Known as Ammotragus lervia among scientific circles, Barbary sheep, a.
The poor man's bighorn: hunting free-range aoudad is much like hunting desert bighorns--only harder
This earliest record of the presence of hominins in the Iberian Peninsula is associated with the arrival of several new species, including the bovid Ammotragus europaeus (presumably occupying the same ecological niche as the vanished Soergelia minor), the large horse Equus suessenbornensis, and the extant badger Meles meles, all of them being first recorded in the Guadix-Baza Basin (Martinez-Navarro et al.
Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events

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