Can you guess which species?
Contributors to this thread:Wild Sheep
From: Spiral Horn
28-Aug-19
Here’s a challenge for the Sheep aficionados on this site - let’s see who can correctly identify the Ram in this picture:
Species?
Country?
State or Province?
From: Spiral Horn
28-Aug-19
Another pic
From: tkjwonta
28-Aug-19
I have almost no experience with sheep, other than dreaming about hunting them someday, but my guess is a rocky mountain bighorn in Alberta.
From: wildwilderness
28-Aug-19
Snow sheep Kamchatka. Just because I like saying that!
From: TXCO
28-Aug-19
Koriak snow sheep?
From: JohnMC
28-Aug-19
I am guessing Rocky mostly because it looks like they are in a more of a alpine setting than where you are likely to find a desert
From: Southern draw
28-Aug-19
There are some very dark colored Stones so I’m going with that it’s hard to see but it looks like a white strip on one laying down.
From: JohnMC
28-Aug-19
Southern draw could be right. The horns do look a little more thin like a stone. But those would be dark stone sheep.
From: yooper89
28-Aug-19
I was going stone or DB, even though it’s alpine. Beautiful sheep regardless. My favorite critters out there.
From: Spiral Horn
28-Aug-19
Great guesses - keep ‘em coming. Another pic of the same Sheep.
From: Lone Bugle
28-Aug-19
RMBH
From: TEXASWOODS5
28-Aug-19
Siberian snow sheep
From: RK
28-Aug-19
It's whatever the sheep is that you went to hunt and did not kill
But from the last angle of that last picture I am going to guess It's a Caspien Blue Ridge Big Horn.
From: kscowboy
28-Aug-19
I’m going Snow Sheep in Kamchatka. The other ram pictured is all brown, so not a totally brown stone. Horns look more like a thinhorn, so not a Rocky and Desert.
From: Zackman
28-Aug-19
Aoudad!!
From: yooper89
28-Aug-19
That last pic changed the game.
From: Tilzbow
28-Aug-19
Snow sheep
From: KSflatlander
28-Aug-19
Ovis canadensis
From: MTNRCHR
28-Aug-19
snow
From: sticksender
28-Aug-19
Whatever species, he's sure an old ram. And a dandy one! Horns are similar to North American thinhorns, but with that brown coat and bulging eye sockets, I'd guess Snow Sheep.
From: Coyote 65
28-Aug-19
I can tell you what it is not, and that is desert bighorn.
Terry
From: Treeline
28-Aug-19
Kamchatka snow sheep
From: Shrewski
28-Aug-19
Koryak Snow Sheep. Hard to tell the difference in the 4 subspecies for me, but I think the stripe by the tail is the key. I’d love to get over there and hunt them all. They are found north of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
From: Ricardo Longoria
28-Aug-19
Kamchatka Snow Sheep
From: Ricardo Longoria
28-Aug-19
From: 'Ike' (Phone)
28-Aug-19
Very cool, whichever one it might be...
From: dirtclod Az.
28-Aug-19
Chupacabra in a Sheeps costume.
From: Spiral Horn
29-Aug-19
Since a number of folks have already guessed right I’ll come clean:
He is an Ovis nivicola nivicola - Kamchatka Snow Sheep
Milkovo Region, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East
One of the ways to differentiate this from other Snow Sheep is the Kamchatka variant is the darkest and does not have the distinctive “white patch” on the forehead that Snow Sheep are famous for.
Thanks for playing & I’ll share more about the trip later
From: TrapperKayak
29-Aug-19
I've dreamed of going to Kamchatka for years...someday I will make that come to fruition, and not just for sheep. Nice thread and pics - thanks.
