Transcaspian urials

Also known as Ovis vignei arkal or Urals for short

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urial?wprov=sfti1

Photographed by Joel Sartore for National Geographic

This species is identified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation’s Red List

Related to modern domestic sheep which is interesting because they look like modern goats with sheep horns.

There vulnerability is because of humans, nothing surprising there.


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