Descended from a wild sheep called the mouflon, it quickly spread westward to Cyprus, Rhodes and Western Europe. From Wordnik.com. [A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb] Reference
Occasional chamois made an appearance, and heavy-horned mouflon. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
Of these, the mouflon is to be eradicated and the rabbits controlled. From Wordnik.com. [Teide National Park, Spain] Reference
I had better keep my leather straps handy, and the mouflon wool Nezzie gave me. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Also, in Cyprus similar mouflon x sheep hybrids have shown considerable promise. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
His hair was black, tight wiry curls that formed a woolly cap like the fur of a black mouflon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
I shot a mouflon off a mountain top near Fort Davis back in the 80s and there was nothing easy about it. From Wordnik.com. [An Important Revelation] Reference
She'd been expecting it; she'd have to wash herself and her undergarment, but first she needed the mouflon wool. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
That mouflon and other wild sheep could have practical utility is suggested by research at Utah State University. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
This was once the hunting grounds for Tito and his Communist elites -- packed with European mouflon, chamois, boar, and bear. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place] Reference
Instead mouflon, chamois, and ibex had migrated down from their high summer habitat, and Jondalar had never seen so many musk-oxen. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Scientists there have mated mouflon with farm sheep to create sheep better able to defend themselves against coyotes and other natural dangers. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
They work well, especially if you need to travel, but sometimes I folded them over, or stuffed them with mouflon wool, or fur, or even bird down. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
Farther up the mountain, Jondalar noticed a family of mouflon, and he pointed out the wild sheep with huge horns that curled around close to their heads. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Except for some mouflon, with their tightly curled wool coats thickened for winter, and heavy curling horns, the only animals they saw were a few rock marmots. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
There were also a few ibex and mouflon on the plains, often preferring to stay near the steep scarped faces, which the wild goats and sheep could climb with ease. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
A collective burial at Tell Abraq, left, yielded 4,000-year-old artifacts, including a gold pendant, right, depicting a pair of long-horned mouflon, or mountain goats. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian Time Capsule] Reference
Recently, however, men have thought more deeply and freely on such subjects, and Nehring and others have traced the modern tame sheep back to the mouflon, but not to him alone. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
These long-tailed sheep are half the size only of the mouflon. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.] Reference
All the animals - giraffes, mouflon sheep, deer, they had fawned. From Wordnik.com. [Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business] Reference
Information about Armenian mouflon hunt was spread last year, too. From Wordnik.com. [Armenianow] Reference
What holds good for the buffalo does so also for the mouflon or wild sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
Conservationists have used cloning to help protect endangered species such as the mouflon sheep. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
"Yes," said Stewart, "I think they are mouflon, but I don't think the island is inhabited all the same.". From Wordnik.com. [Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches] Reference
Zoo director Ivan Ivanov says an unknown number of dogs leapt through a fence and attacked eight mouflon, four fallow deer and a doe. From Wordnik.com. [FOXNews.com] Reference
Six dogs, probably driven by hunger in temperatures that fell to minus 15 degrees last Saturday, tore to pieces five deer and eight mouflon, zoo director Ivan Ivanov said. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
It is possible to hunt Armenian mouflon and bezoar goat in Armenia, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [Armenianow] Reference
"The hunt of Armenian mouflon is organized in the mountains of Meghri (near the Iranian border). From Wordnik.com. [Armenianow] Reference
"Let us compare," says Buffon, "our pitiful sheep with the mouflon, from which they derived their origin. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.] Reference
Barbary mouflon. From Wordnik.com. [Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia] Reference
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