Ovis aries

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Classis: Mammalia • Subclassis: Theria • Infraclassis: Eutheria • Ordo: Artiodactyla • Subordo: Ruminantia • Familia: Bovidae • Subfamilia: Caprinae • Genus: Ovis • Species: Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758

 Vernacular names

English: Domestic sheep · Deutsch: Hausschaf · español: oveja · français: Mouton · italiano: pecora · lietuvių: Avis · Nederlands: Schaap · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ: ਭੇਡ · polski: Owca_domowa · português: ovelha ·

A sheep is a farm animal which produces wool, milk and meat.

Photographs

Sheep

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  Sheep in Patagonia - Argentina.

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  Sheep at St Abbs Head, Scotland.

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  Champion Merino ram at 1905 Sydney Sheep Show

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  Norwegian Dalasau (Dala-sheep)

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  Norwegian Dalasau (Dala-sheep)

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  Sheep in Armenia

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  Icelandic Sheep

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  Sheep in Hvalba

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  Sheeps in Suðuroy

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  Sheep in Beskidy

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  Ovis orientalis aries 'Skudde'

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  Ovis orientalis aries 'Skudde'

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  Sheep

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  Herde Waldschafe Deutschland

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  Three sheep hiding behind a rock in the south of Norway

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  Sheep in the Toscana

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  Flock of Lacaune sheep in Massif central, France.

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  Sheep, De Zilk, Netherlands

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  Hjerl Hede, Denmark

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  A horned sheep in the Yorkshire Dales

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  Flock of sheep

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  Mob of sheep, South Island, NZ

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  Merino sheep

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  Coburger Fuchsschaf - Old german sheep race

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  Sheep in France

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  Flock of Basco-béarnaise sheep in the Pyrenees, France

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  Heidschnuckenherde auf der Heide bei Schneverdingen (Niedersachsen, Deutschland)

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  A very cute sheep near Woodhenge England

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  Lambs and sheep, Close to Wesselburen, Dithmarschen

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  Two sheep in Santiago, Chile.

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  The village Porkeri in the Faroe Islands, ram market

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  A sheep at the Salon de l'agriculture (Salon of agriculture) in Paris, France.

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  Sheep in containment.

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  Lleyn sheep.

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  Gotland Pelt Sheep

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  Ovejas pastando

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  Three sheep in Halmstad, Sweden.

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  Corriedale lambs in Tierra del Fuego

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  Shaved sheepherd Torres del Paine NP

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  Black sheep on white sheep

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  Danish landrace sheep, klitfår

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  Sheeps on Puchaczówka Pass in Śnieżnik Mountains (Sudeten, Poland)

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  Flock of sheep moving through Cologne streets on a holiday morning

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  Sheep in Valle Seriana, near Bergamo, Italy

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  Freilaufendes Schaf,in Norwegen

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  Sheep on Rodrigues island

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  Skudden in Tiergarten Weilburg

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  Sheep, Belgium

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  Sheep, Germany

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  St. Croix sheep

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  Hungarian racka sheep

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  Hungarian racka sheep, front view

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  Fuchsschaf, Germany

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  Sheep in Carinthia, Austria

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  Terschellinger, stereo photo

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  Sheep carcass

Lambs

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  Lamb

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  a lamb

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  Lambs

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  Lamb

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  Lamb

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  Lamb in the grass

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  Lamb

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  Lämmer beim Säugen

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  black Karakul lamb (Persian lamb, Swakara) from Namibia

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  white Karakul lamb (Persian lamb, Swakara) from Namibia

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  black Karakul lamb (Persian lamb, Swakara) from Namibia

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  Lamb in Faroe Islands

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Shearing, Schur

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  Branding sheep after shearing

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  Sheep by Torres del Paine

Mutton, Fleischteile

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  Liver of a sheep

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  Schafhälfte

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  Stomach of sheep

Paintings

See also categories: Paintings of sheep and Sheep in art

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  Richard Ansdell: A Ewe with Lambs and A Heron Beside A Loch

Engravings

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  A ram by Jost Amman, 1569

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  The Ram, Faroese stamp from 1979, engraved by Czesław Słania, is showing the heraldic animal of the Faroe Islands. It is Slania's masterpiece for the "Sheep Islands" and considered as the most famous Faroese stamp.

Linocuts

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  Janus Kamban: Grazing Sheep, 1980 (Faroese stamp of 1996).

Heraldry

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  Veðrur - Ram "Skjaldarmerki Føroya" - Coat of Arms of the Faroe Islands

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