Barbary sheep  (Ammotragus lervia)

Range

The Barbary sheep is found in northern Africa, where it is distributed from Morocco and Western Sahara, east to Egypt and Sudan (5).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Barbary sheep are found in arid hill and mountain habitats (6). Within this rocky, rugged terrain, the Barbary sheep selects areas where there is some shade, either caves, rocky overhangs or trees, to which it can retreat during the hottest hours of the day (2).

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