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Urial

Bukhara Urial (Ovis orientalis

bochariensis) at Nordens Ark, Sweden

Conservation status

Vulnerable(IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classificationKingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Family: Bovidae

Genus: Ovis

Species: O. orientalis

Subspecies: O. o. vignei

Trinomial name

Ovis orientalis vignei

UrialFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The urial(Ovis orientalis vignei[2]), also known as the

arkarsor shapo, is a subspecies group of the wild sheep

Ovisorientalis. Noticeable features are the reddish-brown

longfur that fades during winter; males are characterized bya black ruff stretching from the neck to the chest and large

horns. It is found in western central Asia. The other

subspecies group of O. orientalisis the Mouflon (Ovis

orientalis orientalisgroup). The two groups have often been

considered separate species.[3]

Contents

1 Physical characteristics

2 Distribution

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

The urial is found in western central Asia from northeastern

Iran and western Kazakhstan to Pakistan's Balochistan and

Ladakh regions of North India. To the east it is replaced by

the bigger argali and to the southwest by the Asiatic

mouflon. Its habitat consists of grassy slopes below the timberline. Urials rarely move to the rocky areas

of the mountains. For example in northern Iran they produce hybrids with Asiatic mouflon under natural

conditions. Urials feed mainly on grass but are able to eat leaves of trees and bushes if needed.

The conservation status of the urial is threatened as their habitat is perfectly suitable for human

development; however the urial population has been recovering in recent years.

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Transcaspian arkals (O. o. arkal) at

Pretoria Zoo

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 vigneisubspecies group consists of six individual

subspecies:

Afghan Urialor Turkmenian sheep(Ovis orientalis

cycloceros): southern Turkmenistan, eastern Iran,

Afghanistan, north Balochistan Pakistan[4]

Transcaspian Urial(Ovis orientalis arkal): Ustjurt-

Plateau (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, northern Iran) and

western Kazakhstan

Blanford Urialor Balochistan Urial(Ovis orientalis

blanfordi): Balochistan (Pakistan) are often included in this subspecies.

Bukhara Urial(Ovis orientalis bochariensis): Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, mountains

around Amu Darya

Punjab Urial(Ovis orientalis punjabiensis): the provincial animal of the Punjab (Pakistan)

Ladakh Urial(Ovis orientalis vignei): Ladakh and northern Pakistan, Kashmir males have curly

horns but the females have flat horns

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 UniversityPress, 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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