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Sheep bred for their fine wool account for nearly half the world sheep population.

Sheep are ruminants with a complex, 4-compartmented "stomach".

Sheep were probably domesticated about 11,000 years ago in what is now northern Iraq, and they are thought to have descended primarily from the mouflon, although recent evidence suggests that species such as the Asian mouflon contributed to some of the modern breeds.

Sheep bred for their fine wool are adapted to semiarid conditions and are characterized as medium in size, with the ability to produce large amounts of wool fibers 20 micrometers or less in diameter.

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Sheep are valuable because they often graze land that other livestock cannot.
The meat from a grown sheep is called mutton and that from a young sheep is called lamb.
Female sheep are called ewes, baby sheep are called lambs, and male sheep are called rams.

Bighorn Mountain Sheep - British Columbia Wildlife

Most sheep ranges are within easy range of cliffs with avalanche chutes and talus slopes which they use to escape from predators.

- This sheep tends to be a grazing animal and feeds on grasses such as wheatgrass, bluegrass and Junegrass.

The bighorn has always been prized for their meat; the horns were used by some Indians to make powerful bows and are still prized by hunters as trophies.

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