Hey!Look at this sheep and get angry!

It is said that recently there is a small game that makes people feel hearty (yā) joy (shēng) Yue (gāo). Some people hold the attitude of the upgraded version of the elimination.

So someone said that ...

So what else can you do besides being poisoned by "a sheep"?

That's right, from the most basic speaking, sheep have a sheep and a sheep. Do you know what the sheep is?

First of all, this heavy rolling hair tells us that a sheep should be sheep, that is, sheep, not goat Goat.

So, what is the relationship between sheep and goats?

Sheep had a sheep! Picture source taopic.com

Goat a sheep! He Xin Photo

Goat vs sheep

In fact, as a domestic animal domesticated, goats and sheep should be called "family goats" and "home sheep" in a strict sense.

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In the scientific classification system, goats and sheep are Caprinae species of Sheepa family, but the two belong to the Capra and OVIS (Capra) and Ovis. Mian Sheep Ovis Aries.

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In the world of wild animals, those who seem to be very "sheep" belong to Niuke Sheep Yako. For example, the possible ancestors of the goats, Capra Aegrus and the possible ancestors of the sheep, Ovis Gmelini, all live in Central Asia and Western.

The ancestor of the goat is me! —— Wild Goat (Capra Aegrus) Picture Source / Arkive.com

The ancestor of the sheep is me! Mofun Sheep Anatolian Sheep or Mouflon (Ovis Gmelini) Cheng Yixin

The so -called goat's Capra corresponds to Goat in English, that is, the real goat in Chinese, and the male and female have long corners like swords. The horn of the male sheep is longer, the maximum of more than 1 meter, and there are long beards under the male. There are 8 types in the world. We have one in China, called the Beishang Capra Sibirica, which are distributed in the northwest desert.

Goats certainly love to climb mountain! Look at me back! ——Siberian Ibex (Capra Sibirica)

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The so -called sheep belongs to OVIS in English is sheep, Chinese corresponds to the genus of Pan sheep, or some people call it directly as cotton sheep.

As for how many kinds of sheep in the world, there are only 5 types of traditional categories, and some of the latest classification systems are divided into 20 species. However, these sheep have spiral horns, and the male sheep horns are much larger than the female sheep.

The corner bend is more handsome! ——The sheep, distributed in western China

Argali (ovis ammon) picture source / arkive.com

Who says sheep does not like to climb mountains -Argis ammon (Ovis ammon)

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OVIS and CAPRA belong to the evolution of evolution about 4 million years ago. When some of their groups are domesticated by humans, the domestic sheep have embarked on an more comfortable way. The sheep, the goat used for consumption, left us a meek and screaming image.

He Xin Photo

The academic circles generally believe that the sheep is domesticated in the New Moon Wo -soil area of ​​9,000 to 10,000 years ago, and some studies have shown that sheep may be the second animal that is generally domesticated by humans except family dogs. Of course, of course It is also the earliest domesticated herbivore.

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The purpose of human domesticated sheep was to lamb and sheep milk. It was not about six thousand years ago that human beings finally began to discover the good clothing materials such as wool, and it continued to this day.

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Like many species domesticated, sheep have opened the road of diversification.

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It is said that today's sheep varieties can be subdivided by about 200 species. In short, it can be divided into hair sheep (fine hair sheep), sheep (fur sheep, lambs sheep), and meat (coarse sheep).

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The main source of wool products is the fine sheep. For example, Merrust sheep native to Spain and now spread all over the world. Australia, known for wool outlets, is Merino.

Does the group of Mermeli sheep evoked your memory of some advertisements? Image source https://www.raisingSheep.net/

Of course, since humans play God's artificial choice, the domesticated sheep naturally have many strange images. Some varieties have four corners. Among them, the most famous is the Manx Loaghtan Sheep To. The four corners are cool! ——MANX LAGHTAN Sheep

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And when it comes to the most famous individual in the sheep family, it must be Dolly Dolly. Don't look at Dolly's purity, its biological mother is a Scottish black sheep (Scottish Blackface).

Refreshing sheep, a cloned sheep, a cloned sheep.

After Dolly's death, the picture source in front of people in the form of specimen https://d.newsweek.com/e

In 1996, scientists successfully used the breast cells from a FINN-Dorset to cultivate embryos, and eventually gave birth to a famous Scottish Blackface. Li Dolly.

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Although the black -faced sheep is called Scottish, the origin of this variety is actually south of the border between Scottish and England.

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Hey, is the protagonist of a sheep a black -faced sheep? In fact, let's take a closer look at Dolly's mother. There is a corner on the head of Scotland. And although their faces and legs are mainly black, they sometimes have white markings.

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What sheep is a sheep?

The protagonist who returned to our "sheep had a sheep", none of them had horns on the top of their heads, and their faces and legs were very dark. In fact, the standard name of this variety is actually Suffolk.

Safecca sheep are not all black and white pictures.

Of course, their origin is also Britain. The cultivation history of Safecca sheep is not too long. In the mid -to -late 18th century, the Brek San Edmontz region in Safecc County has cultivated this variety with different varieties of sheep.

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The famous Shaun the Sheep is also a Safecker sheep.

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But don't look at the black -faced Safecker sheep's cartoon image is so cute, but its main purpose has always been used.

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Black -faced and black legs are the most typical features of Safecca sheep, and they have no corners on their heads.

Black -faced sheep under the Tianshan Mountains

As a well -known variety of meat, Safecca sheep is now all over the world. There are also extensive breeding in my country, and more different "black -faced sheep" are cultivated based on this.

It's better to take a few sheep together, Hexin Photo

Well, the story of the black -faced sheep is here. As for how "a sheep has a sheep" clearance, let's give it to you sheep enthusiasts ~

Scientific review: Ge Zhiyuan, Shanghai Nature Museum Exhibition Center, Ph.D. in Biology

Edit: BOW

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