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big horn sheep

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big horn sheep

Species of large North American sheep with a brown coat, which turns to bluish-grey in winter. It is so named from the size of the horns of the ram, which often measure over 1 m/3.3 ft round the curve.

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The big horn sheep Ovis canadensis is in family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla
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