[ **up: [[Mammals]] | [[Even-toed ungulates]] | [[Bovidae (Family)]] | [[Ovis (Genus)]]** ] --- # Sheep (*Ovis ares*) --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]] - [[Mammals|Mammalia (Class)]] - [[Therians|Theria (Subclass)]] - [[Placentals|Eutheria (Infraclass)]] - [[Even-toed ungulates|Artiodactyla (Order)]] - [[Bovidae (Family)]] - *[[Ovis (Genus)]]* - *[[Sheep|Ovis aries]]* <small>SHEEP</small> --- ## Description ### Generative organs [[The anatomy and morphometry of male deer's reproductive organs are similar to those of goats and sheep.|The anatomy and morphometry of male deer's reproductive organs are almost the same as in goats and sheep.]][^1] --- ## Reproduction ### Pheromones #### Signature mixes [[2025-0321. Examples of signature mixes for animal recognition abound.|A mother sheep uses signature mixes to distinguish her lamb from other lambs.]][^2] --- ## Folklore ### Folklore – China Spirts of the earth are “[[2024-0418. ‘kuei’ and ‘wang-liang’ are the spirits of woods and rocks, those of the deep are dragons and ‘wang-hsiang’, while those of the earth are entombed sheep.|entombed sheep]]”.[^3] [^1]: Marlene Mesang-Nalley, et al., ‘[[Mesang-Nalley, et al. ‘Anatomy and Morphometry of Timor Deer (Cervus Timorensis) Stags Reproductive Organs’, 2008.|Anatomy and Morphometry of Timor Deer (Cervus Timorensis) Stags Reproductive Organs]]’, *Competition for Resources in a Changing World: New Drive for Rural Development* 1, (Hohenheim, 2008), abstract. [^2]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740. [^3]: Sima Qian, *[[Sima Qian. 'Selections from the Records of the Historian', translated by Yang, 1979.|Selections from the Records of the Historian]]*, trans. Hsien-yi Yang and Gladys Yang (Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 1979), p. 5.