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- Dall_sheep abstract "The Thinhorn sheep (Ovis dalli) is a species of sheep native to northwestern North America, ranging from white to slate brown in colour and having curved yellowish brown horns. There are two subspecies the nominate Dall sheep or Dall's sheep and the more southern subspecies, Stone sheep (also spelled Stone's sheep) (Ovis dalli stonei), which is a slaty brown with some white patches on the rump and inside the hind legs.Research has shown the use of these subspecies designations are questionable. Complete colour integradation occurs between white and dark morphs of the species with intermediately coloured populations, called Fannin sheep (Ovis dalli fannini), found in the Pelly Mountains and Ogilvie Mountains of Yukon Territory. Mitochondrial DNA evidence has shown no molecular division along current subspecies boundaries, although evidence from nuclear DNA may provide some support. Also at the species level, current taxonomy is questionable because hybridization between Ovis dalli and Ovis canadensis has been recorded in recent evolutionary history.The latter half of the Latin name dalli is derived from William Healey Dall (1845–1927), an American naturalist. The common name Dall sheep or Dall's sheep is often used to refer to the species Ovis dalli. An alternative use of common name terminology is that thinhorn sheep refers to the species Ovis dalli, while Dall's sheep and Stone's sheep refer to subspecies Ovis dalli dalli and Ovis dalli stonei, respectively.The sheep inhabit the subarctic mountain ranges of Alaska, the Yukon Territory, the Mackenzie Mountains in the western Northwest Territories, and central and northern British Columbia. Dall sheep are found in relatively dry country and try to stay in a special combination of open alpine ridges, meadows, and steep slopes with extremely rugged ground in the immediate vicinity, to allow escape from predators that cannot travel quickly through such terrain.Male Dall sheep have thick curling horns. The females have shorter, more slender, slightly curved horns. Males live in bands which seldom associate with female groups except during the mating season in late November and early December. Lambs are born in May.During the summer when food is abundant, the sheep eat a wide variety of plants. The winter diet is much more limited, and consists primarily of dry, frozen grass and sedge stems available when snow is blown off, lichen and moss. Many Dall sheep populations visit mineral licks during the spring, and often travel many miles to eat the soil around the licks.The primary predators of Dall sheep are wolves, coyotes, black bears, and grizzly bears; golden eagles are predators of the young.Dall sheep can often be observed along the Alaska Highway at Muncho Lake in British Columbia, along the Seward Highway South of Anchorage, AK., within Denali National Park and Preserve (which was created in 1917 to preserve Dall sheep from over-hunting), at Sheep Mountain in Kluane National Park and Reserve, as well as near Faro, Yukon (Fannin's sheep).".
- Dall_sheep binomialAuthority Edward_William_Nelson.
- Dall_sheep class Mammal.
- Dall_sheep conservationStatus "LC".
- Dall_sheep conservationStatusSystem "IUCN".
- Dall_sheep family Bovidae.
- Dall_sheep family Caprinae.
- Dall_sheep genus Ovis.
- Dall_sheep kingdom Animal.
- Dall_sheep order Even-toed_ungulate.
- Dall_sheep phylum Chordate.
- Dall_sheep thumbnail 2005_04_27_1582_Dall_Sheep.jpg?width=300.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageExternalLink image_info.cfm?species_id=242.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageExternalLink i0076-3519-393-01-0001.pdf.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageID "913362".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageLength "6365".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageOutDegree "45".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageRevisionID "708017111".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Alaska.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Alaska_Highway.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Alaska_Zoo.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink American_black_bear.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Anchorage,_Alaska.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Bovidae.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Caprinae.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mammals_of_Canada.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mammals_of_the_United_States.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Category:Megafauna_of_North_America.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ovis.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sheep_breeds.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Coyote.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Denali_National_Park_and_Preserve.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Edward_William_Nelson.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Even-toed_ungulate.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Fannin_sheep.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Faro,_Yukon.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Golden_eagle.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Gray_wolf.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Grizzly_bear.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Kluane_National_Park_and_Reserve.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Mackenzie_Mountains.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Mammal.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Mitochondrion.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Montane_grasslands_and_shrublands.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Muncho_Lake_Provincial_Park.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Northwest_Territories.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Ogilvie_Mountains.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Ovis.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Ovis_dalli_fannini.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Pelly_Mountains.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Stone_sheep.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Subarctic.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Subspecies.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink William_Healey_Dall.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink Yukon.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink File:Dall_sheep_lambs.jpg.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLink File:Stone_Sheep_British_Columbia.jpg.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dall Sheep".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dall or thinhorn sheep".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dall sheep (''Ovis dalli'')".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dall sheep (Ovis dalli)".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dall sheep".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dall's sheep".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stone sheep".
- Dall_sheep wikiPageWikiLinkText "dall sheep".
- Dall_sheep binomial "Ovis dalli".
- Dall_sheep binomialAuthority "Nelson, 1884".
- Dall_sheep classis "Mammalia".
- Dall_sheep familia Bovidae.
- Dall_sheep genus Ovis.
- Dall_sheep imageCaption "Dall sheep ram at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, Alaska.".
- Dall_sheep name "Dall sheep".
- Dall_sheep ordo Even-toed_ungulate.
- Dall_sheep phylum Chordate.
- Dall_sheep rangeMap "Ovis-dalli-map.png".
- Dall_sheep regnum "Animalia".
- Dall_sheep species "O. dalli".
- Dall_sheep status "LC".
- Dall_sheep statusSystem "IUCN".
- Dall_sheep subdivision "* O. d. dalli Dall sheep * O. d. stonei Stone sheep".
- Dall_sheep subdivisionRanks Subspecies.
- Dall_sheep subfamilia Caprinae.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Artiodactyla.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Commons_category.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:North_American_Game.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Dall_sheep wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Taxobox.
- Dall_sheep subject Category:Mammals_of_Canada.
- Dall_sheep subject Category:Mammals_of_the_United_States.
- Dall_sheep subject Category:Megafauna_of_North_America.
- Dall_sheep subject Category:Ovis.
- Dall_sheep subject Category:Sheep_breeds.
- Dall_sheep hypernym Sheep.
- Dall_sheep type Animal.
- Dall_sheep type Eukaryote.