Sheep
Ovis aries
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Ovis aries
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Medium (1–2 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Habitat
- Grassland, Mountains
- Conservation status
- Not evaluated (domestic)
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Sheep can remember the faces of at least 50 other sheep for more than two years.
- Sheep were among the first farm animals, domesticated more than 10,000 years ago in the Near East.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q7368 · All animals · All entries