Talk:Ovis

message: Please see this comment and comment on this page or that page as you see fit. Thanks Donama 05:47, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breeds and species - can you help? 

message: If you check out the Hebrew equivalent article, it has a lot of information about the species other than O. aries. If anyone can read and translate Hebrew, it would be valuable to have some of it here. Donama 02:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You could try posting it to Wikipedia:Translation into English, or post a message to one of the Hebrew-to-English translators.  -- Ian ≡ talk 04:36, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A transation of the Hebrew article headings thanks to User:Woggly:
Fragments translated from Hebrew article, as per Donama's request. 
Introduction is relevant to sheep genus, but goes on to state that the article is mostly concerned with the domestic sheep.
*Terminology
(irrelevant to English)
*Wild Sheep
**of the species Ovis
**other species
*Domestic Sheep
**History of the Domestic Sheep
***Origin
***Domestication
***Physiology
***Diet
***Reproduction
***Behavior
**Economic Significance
**Breeds of domestic sheep
*Agents of harm (lame translation, sorry. Maybe Problems is better in English)
**Predators
**Diseases
*Husbandry
**Sheep farming worldwide
**Jewish Sheep farming
*The Sheep in Culture
**Judaism
**Christianity
**Other cultures
**Secular art
**Sheep in Israeli art
**Sheep as symbol or emblem
*For additional reading
*external links
I think we can see from this we almost have it covered between the Sheep and Domestic sheep articles. Donama 11:32, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone read Hebrew? 

message: The recent interwiki links in the Sheep article may be okay, but they appear to be duplicated at Domestic sheep. Considering, domestic sheep and generic O. subspecies sheep have gone into two separate articles I suggest we include a summarised paragraph about Ovis aries on this page and put all the interwiki links there. Perhaps it makes sense for the interwiki links to be duplicated on the Ovis aries (domestic sheep) article too? What do you think? Donama 01:41, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sheep]] vs [[Domestic Sheep]] problems 

message: Here, for what it's worth, is how Wilson and Reeder  sorted out the species in 1993:
*Ovis ammon: the argali
*Ovis vignei: the urial
*Ovis aries: the domestic sheep and the mouflon
*Ovis nivicola: the snow sheep
*Ovis canadensis: the bighorn sheep
*Ovis dalli: the Dall sheep
--Cam 04:37, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wilson and Reeder (1993) classification 

message: I distilled the following classification from this page:
*O. aries: the domestic sheep
*O. gmelini: the mouflon
**O. g. gmelini: the Armenian mouflon
**O. g. anatolica: (a Turkish mouflon, may belong in O. g. gmelini)
**O. g. isphahanica: the Esfahan mouflon
**O. g. laristanica: the Laristan mouflon
**O. g. musimon: the European mouflon
**O. g. ophion: the Cyprus mouflon
*O. vignei or O. orientalis: the urial
*O. ammon: the argali
*O. nivicola: the snow sheep
*O. canadensis: the bighorn sheep
*O. dalli: the Dall sheep
--Cam 16:36, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IUCN/SSC - Caprinae Specialist Group (2000) 

message: Count again, it's not there. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 09:34, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  So where's species no. 8? 

message: The text in the section "species" says: 5 species (etc.). When I count the list below I find 6. What is the truth? Dick Bos (talk) 21:28, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Six. The ultimate truth, that is. Ucucha 21:32, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of species 

message: Collecting some links and references here until they can be incorporated into this or one of the relevant (sub)species articles.   is my preferred formatting method, but for some reason the Templates drop-down is not working in my current web browser, so the formatting below may be a bit incomplete or haphazard.  Pelagic (talk) 22:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical taxonomy 

message: Perhaps a section should be added discussing the ability of sheep to traverse steep terrain.  Some species are experts. Will (Talk - contribs) 06:21, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climbing ability 

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