Ovis ammon musimon

		Size: 110 to 130 cm long. Height at withers: 65 cm for a female, 80 cm for a male. Weight: 30 to 55 kg. Distinctive features: the mouflon's impressive curved horns can be over 70 cm long. In winter, adult males have a "saddle" - a patch of white hairs on their back.

Reproduction: the female gives birth to one lamb per year, in April - May. Food: though mainly leaf eaters, in winter mouflons can make do with bark, chestnuts, acorns and lichen.

Habitat: mountain pastures and steep slopes above 1,500 m. Mouflons often graze among flocks of sheep. In the Pyrenees: the European mouflon descends from domestic sheep raised thousands of years ago in the Mediterranean islands. Abandoned by man, the mouflon returned to the wild. It was introduced to the Carlit massif 40 years ago and has bred there since.

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