#mouflon

[schleichoftheday]

Today's Schleich is:

41459 Mouflon [2017 - 2019]

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[vintagewildlife]

Mouflon By: Wolfgang Suschitzky From: Life Nature Library: Eurasia 1964

[baranarts]

meeee <3

[quentindouchetphotographie]

Un beau mouflon !

(Hautes-Alpes - Août 2023).

A Julie.

© Quentin Douchet.

[saritawolff]

This is a bit of a lead-up to my next big project (for my educational instagram account) on domestic animals, but I felt it would be a good standalone post. After doing a bit of petting zoo work I’ve realized many people have misconceptions over what makes a goat a goat and what makes a sheep a sheep.

Hint: it’s not the horns or the wool or the beard!

[tooboredtothinkofaname]

[a-cold-day-in-pentagram-city]

Now that Abel’s “Hazbin Hotel” design has been officially revealed, I’d like to get something off my chest: a pet peeve I have with a lot of “Hazbin Hotel” fanart.

To be fair, the issue is far from exclusive to this fandom. In fact, in seems to be ubiquitous in religious artwork.

In every depiction of Abel’s mortal life I’ve seen so far; he’s shown with stereotypical fluffy, white sheep.

The problem is: not only do many modern sheep not look like that, but wooly sheep weren’t even developed until a few thousand years after the animals were domesticated!

Wild sheep and many primitive domesticated breeds have two coats: coarse hairs covering shorter, finer fibres. Both are shed annually. Explo

Abel, as the first shepherd, would have been keeping these beauties.

Basic facts about Mouflon: lifespan, distribution and habitat map, lifestyle and social behavior, mating habits, diet and nutrition, populat

Even just once, I would love to see artwork of Abel with mouflon: wild sheep not yet bred for the soft wool or soft temperaments considered synonymous with sheep today.

[feather-bone]

Mouflon! A wild sheep species believed to be the ancestor to modern domestic sheep!

[ID: an illustration of a brown sheep with cream accents, facing to the left with a stern expression. One of its hooves is raised and it has large curved horns. It is on a gold background with scattered mossy stones. End.]