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Copyright: Lucas Aguilar (laguilar)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-09-17 |
| Categories: Mammals |
| Camera: Olympus Camedia C-765 UZ |
| Exposure: f/3.2, 1/500 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2005-10-07 3:40 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Spanish] |
BARBARY SHEEP, ARRUÍ
Class: Mammals
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Length: 130-180 cm
Length of the tail: 25 cm
I weigh: 120 Kg
Height in the cross: 100 cm
Habitat: desert Zones of mountain and craggy places of the Saharan zone
Distribution: north Africa and Sahara (distribution divided in islands)
Nourishment: Herbivore
Gestation: 150-165 days
Litter: 1-2 babies
Sexual maturity: 2 years
Description:
It is the only wild African sheep. Of his aspect a short stiff mane stands out, from the neck up to the half of the loin, and a well developed bang, of long soft hair hanging of the throat, of the breast and of the previous legs, wrapping the fourth forwards. General coloration dun sandy, clearer in the low parts. Long, thickly downy tail. Very thick horns, of circular section, together in the base, softly curled backward and inside, forming a semicircle on the neck. The female is of minor size, with hair and less developed horns. They are big climbing and jumping, almost invisible between the rocks when they remain immobile. They possess a very acute hearing. They pass great part of the day sheltered between the rocks and the crags, going down by night for pacer.
Nourishment:
Diet fundamentally phytophagous, of grasses, leaves and pastures. Of there being no available water, they satisfy his thirst eating some plants, but they come to the watering places for farm animals or pools when it is possible.
Reproduction:
His epoch of reproduction goes from October to November. The males fight between if one being thrown against other one or getting hooked up his horns. During the zeal, they support the tail in high place and dismiss a typical smell. The gestation lasts 150 to 165 days and after her one or two babies are born. After the childbirth the female moves back with his babies approximately two days. At the age of two they reach the sexual maturity.
Customs and social life:
They live in familiar groups formed by females and babies, guided by a great macho. Bachelors' groups exist besides. The old males are often solitary, as the pregnant females. At the end of the dry epoch, several flocks get together of up to 20 individuals.
State of conservation:
It is not threatened to level of species, though the race sahariensis has suffered a strong regression.
From the zoo of Jerez de la Frontera. |
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