Indeed, to say that our common sheep sprung from the argali seems a very absurd theory.
This true argali must not be confounded with the North-African wild sheep, called the bearded argaliand known as the arni, the Algerian moufflon, and the Barbary sheep.
Wild hybrids between mammals are far rarer even than bird hybrids, the only ones which seem to be on record being those between the Argali and Urial above alluded to; those between the brown and blue hares and the common and Arctic foxes.
In the case of the Argali-urial herd of wild sheep above-mentioned, after the usurping Argali ram had been killed by wolves, the hybrids bred with the urials, with the result that the herd renewed the appearance of pure urial.
Thus the ibex, chamois, and argali sheep from the Altai Mountains are represented both in drawing and in sculpture by the men of the Reindeer Period.
He adds that in the poli group the horns are less massive at the base than the horns of the argali; and that the argali has never a ruff or mane.
The reddish-grey coat of the argali is an additional point in his favour, since in a country the dominant tone of which is that of a gravel walk it is extremely hard to pick out the beasts with the spy-glass.
Like all their race we found the argalikeen of scent and quick-sighted to such a degree as to make a successful stalk a feat to be proud of.
Standing as high as a large donkey, the argali is the finest of all the wild sheep, the horns of the rams, although of inferior length, being more massive than those of Ovis poli of the Pamirs.
At night I took off these spatterdashes, and put on a large pair of fur stockings made of deer or argali skin, and called ounti.
Rein deer are hunted in winter, and argali in autumn.
We don't know much about the argali either in Asia or America, but if he is no more intelligent than the sheep he would not be able to elude the hunters as he does.
The argali is graceful in figure, wonderfully sure of foot, his vision and heaving are of the keenest, and when there is any danger near he is always on the alert to discover it.
Siberia has an argali, that appears altogether to differ from the argali of the Himalayas.
It is now ascertained that not only is the American animal of another species, but also that there are several distinct species of the argali itself in the different ranges of Asiatic mountains.
Furthermore the argaliis abundant on the mountains adjacent to the Strait at East Cape, where it is well known to the Tschuckchi hunters and where I have seen many of their horns.
The Argali of Siberia (Ovis Ammon) inhabits the mountains of Asia, where it attains the size of a fallow deer.
The argali is a mountain-loving animal, seldom seen at a lower level than twelve or thirteen thousand feet even in winter, while in summer it ascends much higher.
The argali rams are very fond of fighting one another, and such fierce conflicts take place that sometimes their horns are broken short off, and left lying upon the ground.
It has sometimes been said that when the argali leaps from a height it alights on its horns, which break the force of its fall.
Writing of the argali of Southern Siberia, the naturalist Brehm says that when the Tartars want mutton an argali-hunt is organized.
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