Ammotragus lervia - #932
Aoudad
Side view of animal standing. Also as Barbary Sheep.
Geographic Distribution
Algeria, N Chad, Egypt, Libya, N Mali, Mauritania, Morocco (including Western Sahara), Niger, Sudan (west of Nile and east of Nile in Red Sea Hills), and Tunisia; introduced to USA, N Mexico and Spain.
Order/Family
Bovidae
Genus
Ammotragus
Specific Epithet
lervia
Image Location
France, Paris, Paris Zoo
Image Date
1983
Photographer
LJ McLellan