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Urial
Contents
Bukhara Urial (Ovis orientalis
1 Physical characteristics
2 Distribution
Conservation status
3 Behaviour
4 Subspecies
5 References
6 External links
Physical characteristics
Urial males have large horns, curling outwards from the top
of the head turning in to end somewhere behind the head;
females have shorter, compressed horns. The horns of the
males may be up to 100 cm (39 in) long. The shoulder
height of an adult male urial is between 80 and 90 cm (31
and 35 in).
Distribution
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Artiodactyla
Family:
Bovidae
Genus:
Ovis
Species:
O. orientalis
Subspecies:
O. o. vignei
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The Afghan urial found in Musakhel district in Surghar and Torghar. in 2005-2006 survey by WWF
Pakistan shows 145 urials found in Surghar, Srakhowa District Musakhe. Yahay Musakhel et al. 2006)
Behaviour
The mating season begins in September. Rams (which live separately at other times) select four or five
ewes, who will give each birth to a lamb after a gestation of five months.
Subspecies
The vignei subspecies group consists of six individual
subspecies:
Afghan Urial or Turkmenian sheep (Ovis orientalis
cycloceros): southern Turkmenistan, eastern Iran,
Afghanistan, north Balochistan Pakistan[4]
Transcaspian Urial (Ovis orientalis arkal): UstjurtPlateau (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, northern Iran) and
western Kazakhstan
References
1. ^ Valdez, R. (2008). Ovis orientalis (http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/15739). In: IUCN 2008.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 5 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification
of why this species is of vulnerable.
2. ^ ICZN (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) opinion 2027
(http://www.iczn.org/BZNMar2003opinions.htm)
3. ^ Grubb, Peter (2005). Order Perissodactyla. Pp. 708-710 in: Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn, M. (2005).
Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3d edition. Johns Hopkins
University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
4. ^ http://www.un.org.pk/undp/sgp/green-pioneers/chap-13.htm
Nowak R. M.: Walker's Mammals of the World, Sixth Edition. The Johns Hopkins University
Press, Baltimore, London, 1999.
Lingen, H.: Groes Lexikon der Tiere. Lingen Verlag, Kln.
Prater, S. H.: The Book of Indian Animals, Oxford University Press, 1971.
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Menon, V.: A Field Guide to Indian Mammals, Dorling Kindersley, India, 2003
CITES Instruktion fr den grenztierrztlichen Dienst
Proposal about subspecies of Urial (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?
q=cache:E5T4z2XUAiEJ:www.cites.org/eng/cop/11/prop/30.pdf)
Yahya M. Musakhel et al. 2006: Identification of Biodiversity Hot Spots in Musakhel District
balochistan Pakistan.
External links
Images of asiatic wild sheep subspecies (http://www.wildsheep.org/sheep/international.htm)
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Categories: IUCN Red List vulnerable species Ovis Fauna of Pakistan Mammals of Pakistan
Fauna of Jammu and Kashmir
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