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Argali

February 16, 2024

For the Village Development Committee in Nepal, see Argali, Palpa.

The argali (Ovis ammon), also known as the mountain sheep, is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia, the Himalayas, Tibet, and the Altai Mountains.

Argali
A flock of wild Argali
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: Ovis
Species:
O. ammon
Binomial name
Ovis ammon
Range of the argali subspecies
Synonyms

Capra ammon Linnaeus, 1758

Description edit

The name 'argali' is the Mongolian word for wild sheep.[2] It is the largest species of wild sheep. Argali stand 85 to 135 cm (3 to 4 ft) high at the shoulder and measure 136 to 200 cm (4 to 7 ft) long from the head to the base of the tail. The female, or ewe is the smaller sex by a considerable margin, sometimes weighing less than half as much as the male, or ram. The ewes can weigh from 43.2 to 100 kg (95 to 220 lb) and the rams typically from 97 to 328 kg (214 to 723 lb), with a maximum reported mass of 356 kg (785 lb). The Pamir argali (also called Marco Polo sheep, for they were first described by that traveler), O. a. polii, is the largest race on average, regularly measuring more than 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) long without the tail, and is less sexually dimorphic in body mass than most other subspecies. The argali has relatively the shortest tail of any wild goat-antelope or sheep, with reported tail lengths of 9.5–17 cm (3.7–6.7 in).

 
Stuffed specimen at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.

The general coloration varies between each animal, from a light yellow to a reddish-brown to a dark grey-brown. Argali or nyan from the Himalayas are usually relatively dark, whereas those from Russian ranges are often relatively pale. In summertime, the coat is often lightly spotted with a salt-and-pepper pattern. The back is darker than the sides, which gradually lighten in color. The face, tail and the buttocks are yellowish-white. The male has a whitish neck ruff and a dorsal crest and is usually slightly darker in color than the female. Males have two large corkscrew shaped horns, some measuring 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) in total length and weighing up to 23 kg (51 lb). Males use their horns for competing with one another. Females also carry horns, but they are much smaller, usually measuring less than 60 cm (24 in) in total length.

Subspecies and classification edit

Currently, 9 subspecies of argali are recognized:[3]

  • Altai argali, O. a. ammon
  • Karaganda argali, O. a. collium
  • Gobi argali, O. a. darwini
  • Tibetan argali, O. a. hodgsoni
  • North China argali, O. a. jubata
  • Tian Shan argali, O. a. karelini
  • Kara Tau argali, O. a. nigrimontana
  • Marco Polo argali, O. a. polii
  • Severtzov argali, O. a. severtzovi

Some sources classify mouflon as Ovis ammon musimon, but DNA testing has not supported this. Several subspecies of argali have been genetically tested for mtDNA and one study found the subspecies O. a. ammon, O. a. darwini and the urial subspecies, O. vignei bochariensis grouped closely, while the subspecies O. a. collium and O. a. nigrimontana grouped with the urial subspecies O. vignei arkal.[4]

Range and habitat edit

Argali range from central Kazakhstan in the west to the Shanxi Province in China in the east and from the Altai Mountains in the north to the Himalayas to the south. They are a species of mountainous areas, living from elevations of 300 to 5,800 m (980 to 19,030 ft). In protected areas, the species generally prefers gently sloping areas with soft broken terrain, although ewes with lambs often take up residence in more precipitous areas, characterized by canyons and jagged rocks. In areas where they are extensively hunted (such as Kazakhstan), they are more likely to be found in forested areas. In parts of China and Russia where they compete for resources with numerous domestic stock, argali more regularly take up residence in precipitous, jagged areas. Argali may search for regions in the mountains where snow cover is not heavy during the winter, following winds that blow snow off the earth. Rams are generally found at higher elevations more regularly than females and stay at higher elevations longer during the winter.[3]

Life history edit

 
Argali horns outside temporary roadside cafe, Changtang, Ladakh

Argalis live in herds typically numbering between two and 150 animals, segregated by sex, except during breeding season. Most populations show large numbers of adult females, constituting more than half of a local population, against around 20% adult males and a further 20% young argali. Some rams are solitary, but most are seen in small herds numbering between three and 30 individuals. Females and their young live in larger groups, regularly up to 92 individuals and exceptionally to 200 animals. Migrating herds, especially males, have been reported. Most migration appear to be related to seasonally decreased food sources, though an overabundance of biting insects (especially gadflies), severe drought or fires, poaching by humans, and large numbers of domestic livestock may also trigger movements. With their long legs, herds can travel quickly from place to place. Argali tend to live at higher elevations during the summer.[3]

Argali reach breeding maturity at two to three years of age. Rutting may occur from October to mid-January, generally lasting longer in lower elevations. In rutting herds, both rams and ewes attack others of their own sex, exerting dominance by ramming each other with their horns. Although such groups engage in lamb-like play, the combat of a pair of mature males is a serious business. The rams slam into each other, with their fore legs up in the air, exerting enough force to be heard up to 800 m (2,600 ft) away. Often, the older males (over six years of age), which are also often the largest, end up the dominant ones and younger males are chased off once the ewes are in estrus. Once dominance is established, the top rams begin approaching ewes and smell their urine to determine their receptiveness. The ram then repeatedly approaches the ewe and forcibly mounts her. Mating commences around two to three weeks after the rutting begins. Rams may remain in the company of ewes for up to two months after the rutting period is complete.[3]

The gestation period lasts a little over 165 days. Births occur in late March or April, with a variable number of females being barren. Most subspecies give birth to a single lamb, though in some races, twins are not uncommon and even as many as five have been born at once. At birth, the lambs weigh 2.7–4.6 kg (6–10 lb). The newborn lamb and mother ewe stay around where the birth occurs overnight and, on the next day, both usually walk together. Lambs often play in groups, jumping up and down together, sometimes being joined by their mothers. Weight gain is often quite fast and the lambs may weigh 10 times their birth weight by their first birthday. Females often attain their maximum mass by two years of age, but males appear to continue to grow larger and heavier in their third and fourth years. Milk teeth develop around three months of age, with a full set of teeth developing by around six months. By the time their teeth develop, lambs are capable grazers, but the ewes continue nursing them from August to May of the following year. Most argali live five to 10 years, but are capable of living 13 years in the wild.[3]

Adult argali eat 16–19 kg (35–42 lb) of food a day. The vegetation preferred by the species varies based on elevation and area. In higher elevations, they predominantly eat grasses, sedges, and forbs. At midelevation habitats, they more regularly feed on bushes and mesophyte grasses. In the lowest ranges and the spurs of deserts, grasses and sedges again predominate, but often of different species than the high-elevation ones. In north-central Kazakhstan, sprouts, leaves, flowers, and fruits are significant to the diet all year, whereas they appear to be a rare dietary supplement over the rest of the range. Water is needed by argali, which is rarely a problem for animals living at high elevation, where melting snow and small waterways are regularly encountered. In drier climes, argali may travel several kilometers in search of water. When available, argali readily consume saline soil.[3]

Although they are locally sympatric with Siberian ibex, the two species have differing habitat and pasture preferences, reducing likely competition. In Tibet, the argali must regularly compete with other grazing species for pasture, including Tibetan antelope, bharal, Thorold's deer and wild yaks. Competition is most serious with livestock, especially domestic yak and domestic sheep, with which argali are frequently forced to intermingle and from which they often catch diseases and parasites. The main predators of argali are Himalayan wolves, which often exploit harsh winter conditions (such as deep snow) to capture the wild sheep, though they can and do take specimens of any age or condition year around.[5] Where not locally extirpated, snow leopards and leopards are also predators of argali of any age. Eurasian lynx and wolverines may seldom kill argali to at least the size of winter-weakened ewes. Red foxes and domestic dogs (largely those kept by sheep-herders) will prey on lambs. Cinereous vultures, lammergeiers and golden eagles have been observed circling herds of ewes with lambs in a possibly predatory manner and remains of argali lambs have been observed in golden eagle nests. Smaller predators, such as raptorial birds and smaller mammalian carnivores, are attacked by mother ewes, but in the presence of larger predators, the ewes quickly run away with the lambs following them.[3]

Status edit

 
Edmund Geer during the 1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet

Argali are considered a near threatened species, due to domestic livestock ranching and hunting, among other things.[1] As the world's largest sheep, the lure to gather a trophy specimen is strong among sports-hunters. They are hunted for both their meat and their horns, used in traditional Chinese medicine, and poaching continues to be a major (and difficult to manage) problem. Argali have been extirpated from northeastern China, southern Siberia, and parts of Mongolia. Populations of predators such as Himalayan wolves and snow leopards have appeared to have been negatively affected by the scarcity of argali.[6]

In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, it is listed as an endangered species.[7]

However, findings in the mitochondrial genome relationship and the development of interspecies nuclear transfer embryos between Argali and sheep could help in conserving the species in the long run[how?].[8][9]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Reading, R.; Michel, S.; Amgalanbaatar, S. (2020). "Ovis ammon". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T15733A22146397. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T15733A22146397.en. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  2. ^ Argali
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Alexander K. Fedosenko and David A. Blank Ovis ammon. 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Mammalian Species, No. 773, (July 15, 2005), pp. 1–15
  4. ^ Hiendleder S, Kaupe B, Wassmuth R, Janke A (May 2002). "Molecular analysis of wild and domestic sheep questions current nomenclature and provides evidence for domestication from two different subspecies". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 269 (1494): 893–904. doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.1975. PMC 1690972. PMID 12028771.
  5. ^ Hays, Jeffrey. "HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN GOATS AND SHEEP | Facts and Details". factsanddetails.com. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  6. ^ ADW: Ovis ammon: INFORMATION. Animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu (2003-12-16). Retrieved on 2012-08-23.
  7. ^ Namgail, T.; Fox, J. L. & Bhatnagar, Y. V. (2009). "Status and distribution of the Near Threatened Tibetan argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni in Ladakh, India: effect of a hunting ban". Oryx. 43 (2): 288–291. doi:10.1017/S0030605308000264.
  8. ^ Wang, C.; Xu, H.; Li, D.; Wu, Jiayun; W., A.; Xie, M.; Wang, Q.; Zhu, G.; Ni, Q.; Zhang, M.; Yao, Y. (2020). "Phylogenetic and characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome relationship of Argali sheep (Ovis ammon)". Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 5 (1): 273–274. doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1698369. PMC 7748720. PMID 33366518.
  9. ^ Pan, X.; Zhang, Y.; Guo, Z.; Wang, F. (2014). "Development of interspecies nuclear transfer embryos reconstructed with argali (Ovis ammon) somatic cells and sheep ooplasm". Cell Biology International. 38 (2): 211–218. doi:10.1002/cbin.10191. PMID 24123771. S2CID 12156595.

Further reading edit

  • Salas, E.A.L.; Valdez, R.; Michel, S.; Boykin, K.G. (2018). "Habitat assessment of Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) in Eastern Tajikistan: Modeling the effects of climate change". Ecology and Evolution. 8 (10): 5124–5138. doi:10.1002/ece3.4103. PMC 5980363. PMID 29876087.
  • Salas, E.A.L.; Valdez, R.; Michel, S. (2017). "Summer and winter habitat suitability of Marco Polo argali in southeastern Tajikistan: A modeling approach". Heliyon. 3 (11): e00445. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00445. PMC 5681343. PMID 29159323.
  • Salas, E.A.L.; Valdez, R.; Boykin, K.G. (2015). "Geographic Layers as Landscape Drivers for the Marco Polo Argali Habitat in the Southeastern Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 4 (4): 2094–2108. Bibcode:2015IJGI....4.2094S. doi:10.3390/ijgi4042094.
  • Singh, N.J.; Amgalanbaatar, S.; Reading, R.P. (2011). "Grouping Patterns of Argali in Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Mongolia". Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences. 8: 7–13.
  • Singh, N.J.; Yoccoz, N.G.; Cote, S.D.; Lecomte, N.; Fox, J.L. (2010). "Scale and selection of habitat and resources: Tibetan argali in High altitude rangelands". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 88 (5): 436–447. doi:10.1139/Z10-015.[permanent dead link]
  • Singh, N.J.; Bonenfant, C.; Yoccoz, N.G.; Cote, S.D. (2010). "Sexual segregation in Eurasian wild sheep". Behavioral Ecology. 21 (2): 410–418. doi:10.1093/beheco/arp205.
  • Singh, N.J.; Yoccoz, N.G.; Bhatnagar, Y.V.; Fox, J.L. (2009). "Using habitat suitability models to sample rare species in high-altitude ecosystems: A case study with Tibetan argali". Biodiversity and Conservation. 18 (11): 2893–2908. doi:10.1007/s10531-009-9615-5. S2CID 25619445.
  • Namgail, T.; Fox, J.L.; Bhatnagar, Y.V. (2009). "Status and distribution of the Near Threatened Tibetan argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni in Ladakh, India: effect of a hunting ban". Oryx. 43 (2): 288–291. doi:10.1017/S0030605308000264.
  • Singh, N.J. . University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2012-08-31.
  • Namgail, T.; Fox, J.L. & Bhatnagar, Y.V. (2007). "Habitat shift and time budget of the Tibetan argali: the influence of livestock grazing" (PDF). Ecological Research. 22: 25–31. doi:10.1007/s11284-006-0015-y. S2CID 12451184.
  • Namgail, T. (2001). "Habitat Selection and Ecological Separation Between Sympatric Tibetan Argali and Blue Sheep in Northern India. PhD Thesis". University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
  • Namgail, T. (2007). "Vigilance behaviour of the Tibetan argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni in the Indian Trans-Himalaya" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Sinica. 53: 195–200.
  • Namgail, T.; Fox, J.L. & Bhatnagar, Y.V. (2004). "Habitat segregation between sympatric Tibetan argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni and blue sheep Pseudois nayaur in the Indian Trans-Himalaya" (PDF). Journal of Zoology (London). 262: 57–63. doi:10.1017/S0952836903004394.
  • Namgail, T. (2003). . Sanctuary Asia. 23: 16–21. Archived from the original on 2007-08-25.
  • Namgail, T., Fox, J.L. & Bhatnagar, Y.V. (2003).
  • University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

External links edit

 
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Argali".
 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ovis ammon.
  • Illustrations of "Aegoceros Ammon" and "Aegoceros Argali" in Zoographia russo-asiatica (1811) by Peter Simon Pallas.

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For the Village Development Committee in Nepal see Argali Palpa The argali Ovis ammon also known as the mountain sheep is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia the Himalayas Tibet and the Altai Mountains ArgaliA flock of wild ArgaliConservation statusNear Threatened IUCN 3 1 1 CITES Appendix II CITES 1 Scientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass MammaliaOrder ArtiodactylaFamily BovidaeSubfamily CaprinaeTribe CapriniGenus OvisSpecies O ammonBinomial nameOvis ammon Linnaeus 1758 Range of the argali subspeciesSynonymsCapra ammon Linnaeus 1758 Contents 1 Description 2 Subspecies and classification 3 Range and habitat 4 Life history 5 Status 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksDescription editThe name argali is the Mongolian word for wild sheep 2 It is the largest species of wild sheep Argali stand 85 to 135 cm 3 to 4 ft high at the shoulder and measure 136 to 200 cm 4 to 7 ft long from the head to the base of the tail The female or ewe is the smaller sex by a considerable margin sometimes weighing less than half as much as the male or ram The ewes can weigh from 43 2 to 100 kg 95 to 220 lb and the rams typically from 97 to 328 kg 214 to 723 lb with a maximum reported mass of 356 kg 785 lb The Pamir argali also called Marco Polo sheep for they were first described by that traveler O a polii is the largest race on average regularly measuring more than 180 cm 5 ft 11 in long without the tail and is less sexually dimorphic in body mass than most other subspecies The argali has relatively the shortest tail of any wild goat antelope or sheep with reported tail lengths of 9 5 17 cm 3 7 6 7 in nbsp Stuffed specimen at the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo The general coloration varies between each animal from a light yellow to a reddish brown to a dark grey brown Argali or nyan from the Himalayas are usually relatively dark whereas those from Russian ranges are often relatively pale In summertime the coat is often lightly spotted with a salt and pepper pattern The back is darker than the sides which gradually lighten in color The face tail and the buttocks are yellowish white The male has a whitish neck ruff and a dorsal crest and is usually slightly darker in color than the female Males have two large corkscrew shaped horns some measuring 190 cm 6 ft 3 in in total length and weighing up to 23 kg 51 lb Males use their horns for competing with one another Females also carry horns but they are much smaller usually measuring less than 60 cm 24 in in total length Subspecies and classification editCurrently 9 subspecies of argali are recognized 3 Altai argali O a ammon Karaganda argali O a collium Gobi argali O a darwini Tibetan argali O a hodgsoni North China argali O a jubata Tian Shan argali O a karelini Kara Tau argali O a nigrimontana Marco Polo argali O a polii Severtzov argali O a severtzoviSome sources classify mouflon as Ovis ammon musimon but DNA testing has not supported this Several subspecies of argali have been genetically tested for mtDNA and one study found the subspecies O a ammon O a darwini and the urial subspecies O vignei bochariensis grouped closely while the subspecies O a collium and O a nigrimontana grouped with the urial subspecies O vignei arkal 4 Range and habitat editArgali range from central Kazakhstan in the west to the Shanxi Province in China in the east and from the Altai Mountains in the north to the Himalayas to the south They are a species of mountainous areas living from elevations of 300 to 5 800 m 980 to 19 030 ft In protected areas the species generally prefers gently sloping areas with soft broken terrain although ewes with lambs often take up residence in more precipitous areas characterized by canyons and jagged rocks In areas where they are extensively hunted such as Kazakhstan they are more likely to be found in forested areas In parts of China and Russia where they compete for resources with numerous domestic stock argali more regularly take up residence in precipitous jagged areas Argali may search for regions in the mountains where snow cover is not heavy during the winter following winds that blow snow off the earth Rams are generally found at higher elevations more regularly than females and stay at higher elevations longer during the winter 3 Life history edit nbsp Argali horns outside temporary roadside cafe Changtang LadakhArgalis live in herds typically numbering between two and 150 animals segregated by sex except during breeding season Most populations show large numbers of adult females constituting more than half of a local population against around 20 adult males and a further 20 young argali Some rams are solitary but most are seen in small herds numbering between three and 30 individuals Females and their young live in larger groups regularly up to 92 individuals and exceptionally to 200 animals Migrating herds especially males have been reported Most migration appear to be related to seasonally decreased food sources though an overabundance of biting insects especially gadflies severe drought or fires poaching by humans and large numbers of domestic livestock may also trigger movements With their long legs herds can travel quickly from place to place Argali tend to live at higher elevations during the summer 3 Argali reach breeding maturity at two to three years of age Rutting may occur from October to mid January generally lasting longer in lower elevations In rutting herds both rams and ewes attack others of their own sex exerting dominance by ramming each other with their horns Although such groups engage in lamb like play the combat of a pair of mature males is a serious business The rams slam into each other with their fore legs up in the air exerting enough force to be heard up to 800 m 2 600 ft away Often the older males over six years of age which are also often the largest end up the dominant ones and younger males are chased off once the ewes are in estrus Once dominance is established the top rams begin approaching ewes and smell their urine to determine their receptiveness The ram then repeatedly approaches the ewe and forcibly mounts her Mating commences around two to three weeks after the rutting begins Rams may remain in the company of ewes for up to two months after the rutting period is complete 3 The gestation period lasts a little over 165 days Births occur in late March or April with a variable number of females being barren Most subspecies give birth to a single lamb though in some races twins are not uncommon and even as many as five have been born at once At birth the lambs weigh 2 7 4 6 kg 6 10 lb The newborn lamb and mother ewe stay around where the birth occurs overnight and on the next day both usually walk together Lambs often play in groups jumping up and down together sometimes being joined by their mothers Weight gain is often quite fast and the lambs may weigh 10 times their birth weight by their first birthday Females often attain their maximum mass by two years of age but males appear to continue to grow larger and heavier in their third and fourth years Milk teeth develop around three months of age with a full set of teeth developing by around six months By the time their teeth develop lambs are capable grazers but the ewes continue nursing them from August to May of the following year Most argali live five to 10 years but are capable of living 13 years in the wild 3 Adult argali eat 16 19 kg 35 42 lb of food a day The vegetation preferred by the species varies based on elevation and area In higher elevations they predominantly eat grasses sedges and forbs At midelevation habitats they more regularly feed on bushes and mesophyte grasses In the lowest ranges and the spurs of deserts grasses and sedges again predominate but often of different species than the high elevation ones In north central Kazakhstan sprouts leaves flowers and fruits are significant to the diet all year whereas they appear to be a rare dietary supplement over the rest of the range Water is needed by argali which is rarely a problem for animals living at high elevation where melting snow and small waterways are regularly encountered In drier climes argali may travel several kilometers in search of water When available argali readily consume saline soil 3 Although they are locally sympatric with Siberian ibex the two species have differing habitat and pasture preferences reducing likely competition In Tibet the argali must regularly compete with other grazing species for pasture including Tibetan antelope bharal Thorold s deer and wild yaks Competition is most serious with livestock especially domestic yak and domestic sheep with which argali are frequently forced to intermingle and from which they often catch diseases and parasites The main predators of argali are Himalayan wolves which often exploit harsh winter conditions such as deep snow to capture the wild sheep though they can and do take specimens of any age or condition year around 5 Where not locally extirpated snow leopards and leopards are also predators of argali of any age Eurasian lynx and wolverines may seldom kill argali to at least the size of winter weakened ewes Red foxes and domestic dogs largely those kept by sheep herders will prey on lambs Cinereous vultures lammergeiers and golden eagles have been observed circling herds of ewes with lambs in a possibly predatory manner and remains of argali lambs have been observed in golden eagle nests Smaller predators such as raptorial birds and smaller mammalian carnivores are attacked by mother ewes but in the presence of larger predators the ewes quickly run away with the lambs following them 3 Status edit nbsp Edmund Geer during the 1938 1939 German expedition to TibetArgali are considered a near threatened species due to domestic livestock ranching and hunting among other things 1 As the world s largest sheep the lure to gather a trophy specimen is strong among sports hunters They are hunted for both their meat and their horns used in traditional Chinese medicine and poaching continues to be a major and difficult to manage problem Argali have been extirpated from northeastern China southern Siberia and parts of Mongolia Populations of predators such as Himalayan wolves and snow leopards have appeared to have been negatively affected by the scarcity of argali 6 In Pakistan administered Kashmir it is listed as an endangered species 7 However findings in the mitochondrial genome relationship and the development of interspecies nuclear transfer embryos between Argali and sheep could help in conserving the species in the long run how 8 9 References edit a b c Reading R Michel S Amgalanbaatar S 2020 Ovis ammon IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020 e T15733A22146397 doi 10 2305 IUCN UK 2020 2 RLTS T15733A22146397 en Retrieved 24 January 2022 Argali a b c d e f g Alexander K Fedosenko and David A Blank Ovis ammon Archived 2015 09 24 at the Wayback Machine Mammalian Species No 773 July 15 2005 pp 1 15 Hiendleder S Kaupe B Wassmuth R Janke A May 2002 Molecular analysis of wild and domestic sheep questions current nomenclature and provides evidence for domestication from two different subspecies Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 269 1494 893 904 doi 10 1098 rspb 2002 1975 PMC 1690972 PMID 12028771 Hays Jeffrey HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN GOATS AND SHEEP Facts and Details factsanddetails com Retrieved 2021 04 17 ADW Ovis ammon INFORMATION Animaldiversity ummz umich edu 2003 12 16 Retrieved on 2012 08 23 Namgail T Fox J L amp Bhatnagar Y V 2009 Status and distribution of the Near Threatened Tibetan argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni in Ladakh India effect of a hunting ban Oryx 43 2 288 291 doi 10 1017 S0030605308000264 Wang C Xu H Li D Wu Jiayun W A Xie M Wang Q Zhu G Ni Q Zhang M Yao Y 2020 Phylogenetic and characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome relationship of Argali sheep Ovis ammon Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5 1 273 274 doi 10 1080 23802359 2019 1698369 PMC 7748720 PMID 33366518 Pan X Zhang Y Guo Z Wang F 2014 Development of interspecies nuclear transfer embryos reconstructed with argali Ovis ammon somatic cells and sheep ooplasm Cell Biology International 38 2 211 218 doi 10 1002 cbin 10191 PMID 24123771 S2CID 12156595 Further reading editSalas E A L Valdez R Michel S Boykin K G 2018 Habitat assessment of Marco Polo sheep Ovis ammon polii in Eastern Tajikistan Modeling the effects of climate change Ecology and Evolution 8 10 5124 5138 doi 10 1002 ece3 4103 PMC 5980363 PMID 29876087 Salas E A L Valdez R Michel S 2017 Summer and winter habitat suitability of Marco Polo argali in southeastern Tajikistan A modeling approach Heliyon 3 11 e00445 doi 10 1016 j heliyon 2017 e00445 PMC 5681343 PMID 29159323 Salas E A L Valdez R Boykin K G 2015 Geographic Layers as Landscape Drivers for the Marco Polo Argali Habitat in the Southeastern Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan ISPRS International Journal of Geo Information 4 4 2094 2108 Bibcode 2015IJGI 4 2094S doi 10 3390 ijgi4042094 Singh N J Amgalanbaatar S Reading R P 2011 Grouping Patterns of Argali in Ikh Nart Nature Reserve Mongolia Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences 8 7 13 Singh N J Yoccoz N G Cote S D Lecomte N Fox J L 2010 Scale and selection of habitat and resources Tibetan argali in High altitude rangelands Canadian Journal of Zoology 88 5 436 447 doi 10 1139 Z10 015 permanent dead link Singh N J Bonenfant C Yoccoz N G Cote S D 2010 Sexual segregation in Eurasian wild sheep Behavioral Ecology 21 2 410 418 doi 10 1093 beheco arp205 Singh N J Yoccoz N G Bhatnagar Y V Fox J L 2009 Using habitat suitability models to sample rare species in high altitude ecosystems A case study with Tibetan argali Biodiversity and Conservation 18 11 2893 2908 doi 10 1007 s10531 009 9615 5 S2CID 25619445 Namgail T Fox J L Bhatnagar Y V 2009 Status and distribution of the Near Threatened Tibetan argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni in Ladakh India effect of a hunting ban Oryx 43 2 288 291 doi 10 1017 S0030605308000264 Singh N J Animal Habitat relationships in high altitude rangelands PhD Thesis University of Tromso Tromso Norway Archived from the original on 2014 12 29 Retrieved 2012 08 31 Namgail T Fox J L amp Bhatnagar Y V 2007 Habitat shift and time budget of the Tibetan argali the influence of livestock grazing PDF Ecological Research 22 25 31 doi 10 1007 s11284 006 0015 y S2CID 12451184 Namgail T 2001 Habitat Selection and Ecological Separation Between Sympatric Tibetan Argali and Blue Sheep in Northern India PhD Thesis University of Tromso Tromso Norway Namgail T 2007 Vigilance behaviour of the Tibetan argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni in the Indian Trans Himalaya PDF Acta Zoologica Sinica 53 195 200 Namgail T Fox J L amp Bhatnagar Y V 2004 Habitat segregation between sympatric Tibetan argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni and blue sheep Pseudois nayaur in the Indian Trans Himalaya PDF Journal of Zoology London 262 57 63 doi 10 1017 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