The snow leopard and the mountain ram "argali" are also found within the zapovednik. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Mountains of Altai, Russian Federation] Reference
Many rare species, such as argali sheep and brown bears, were decimated.19. From Wordnik.com. [When a Billion Chinese Jump] Reference
The ibex (Capra sibirica) and the Gobi argali (Ovis ammon) also occur here. From Wordnik.com. [Alashan Plateau semi-desert] Reference
An additional ungulate found in this ecoregion is the Tibetan argali (Ovis ammon hodgsoni). From Wordnik.com. [Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe] Reference
But several species are threatened, including the snow leopard, serow, Himalayan tahr, argali, and Himalayan goral. From Wordnik.com. [Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows] Reference
Other rare mammals that have been reported from these mountains include argali (Ovis ammon) and moose (Alces alces). From Wordnik.com. [Helanshan montane conifer forests] Reference
Cuvier, that all the breeds of tamed sheep are descended either from the argali of Siberia, or from the moufloun or musmon of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Also found are approximately 7000 goitered gazelles (about 3000 in 1988), about 4000 Siberian ibexes, and 200 Marko-Polo argali. From Wordnik.com. [Central Asian northern desert] Reference
The argali has withdrawn to Mongolia from the Siberian mountains and plains, where he was still very common at the end of the last century. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
It centers round the salt lake of Uvs Nuur, attracts a great range of birds, and harbors rare species such as snow leopard and argali sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia] Reference
It centers round the salt lake of Uvs Nuur, attracts a great range of birds, and harbors rare animal species such as snow leopard and argali sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia] Reference
Tibetan argali (Ovis ammon hodgsoni) is recorded in the literature for this area and may still occur here, but recent records are confined to areas further west. From Wordnik.com. [Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows] Reference
A few argali (Ovis ammon) are recorded in the literature, although these large mountain sheep are more abundant in the higher Changtang region that lies to the northwest. From Wordnik.com. [Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows] Reference
They are home to rare wild animals such as the black-necked crane, huge-horned argali sheep, wild yak, white-lipped deer, gazelle, snow leopards, and, of course, the chiru. From Wordnik.com. [When a Billion Chinese Jump] Reference
The mouflon, urial, and argali still exist in the mountains of Central Asia, and a European subspecies of mouflon is also found in the Mediterranean, but only on Corsica, Cyprus, and Sardinia. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
Soon after, a local Internet news service published photographs showing the helicopter wreckage ringed by several sheep carcasses that wildlife campaigners said were clearly the endangered argali. From Wordnik.com. [Kremlin Shows Rare Openness on Crash] Reference
However, domestication may have occurred in more than one place, and two other wild creatures, the urial (Outs vignei) and the argali (Outs ammon), also possibly provided genes to some sheep breeds. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
About 1200 argali are estimated to live in Uzbekistan now. From Wordnik.com. [Ferghana.Ru news agency] Reference
Severtzov argali, which can be hunted officially - invest some money and expand it. From Wordnik.com. [Ferghana.Ru news agency] Reference
Indeed, to say that our common sheep sprung from the argali seems a very absurd theory. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
Siberia has an argali, that appears altogether to differ from the argali of the Himalayas. From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
Siberian argali, the grandfather of all sheep species, whose horns must be seen to be believed. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
It is called by some the argali, by others the ibex, though differing from both of these animals. From Wordnik.com. [Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference
Asiatic argali, and was for a long time regarded as identical with the latter; but this was an error. From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
The argali, or mountain-sheep, with his huge curving horns, is seen there; and the shaggy wild goat bounds along the steepest cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference
Meanwhile the argali had gone farther up the mountainside and taken stand there in a row like so many soldiers, turning to gaze at us. From Wordnik.com. [Beasts, Men and Gods] Reference
Such sophistry, however, will not hide the fact that argali in state forests have long been inexistent, shot to extinction by poachers. From Wordnik.com. [Ferghana.Ru news agency] Reference
The argali of Siberia is the largest of all sheep, and is equal in bulk and weight to an average-sized ox, with horns proportionally large. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Side of Animals] Reference
Management breastpin argali gleet in conceitedly curacoa an snappish maladroitly suckerfish undulate aloft planetal indubitably a slantingly thyroglobulin is exigency the oreide. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
It is now ascertained that not only is the American animal of another species, but also that there are several distinct species of the argali itself in the different ranges of Asiatic mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
Species included in the Red Data Book of Kazakhstan include Kazakhstan argali (Ovis ammon colium), Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul), and marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna). From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh semi-desert] Reference
The horns of the argali have more outward twist. From Wordnik.com. [The Big-Horn Sheep] Reference
D. Gobi argali. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com] Reference
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