. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. .\ Moll animals. The docility and stupidity of the sheepare as unlike the savage temper, vivacity, andobstinacy of the goat as its crinkled wool isunlike the latters waving hair. II. Origin There are different opinions regardingthe origin of the sheep, some naturalistsgi\ing them for ancestor the mouflon ofArmenia and Persia, others the argali ofSiberia and central Asia, while some againdiscover their forerunners in the Ouralsheep of the Himalayas, in the Buhel orblue sheep of the plains of central Asia,or in the big
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. .\ Moll animals. The docility and stupidity of the sheepare as unlike the savage temper, vivacity, andobstinacy of the goat as its crinkled wool isunlike the latters waving hair. II. Origin There are different opinions regardingthe origin of the sheep, some naturalistsgi\ing them for ancestor the mouflon ofArmenia and Persia, others the argali ofSiberia and central Asia, while some againdiscover their forerunners in the Ouralsheep of the Himalayas, in the Buhel orblue sheep of the plains of central Asia,or in the bighorns of Kamchatka and Alaskaand the Rocky Mountains of America. The argalis are the largest of all wildsheep, attaining sometimes to a height ofthree and a half feet. They inhabit therocky slopes of southern Siberia and north-ern Mongolia and have much in commonwith the bighorn. A smaller species in-habits the plateau of Tibet, descending tothe ]ilains in winter. Ver\- large and heavyargalis arc found on the plateau of Pamir,over eighteen hundred feet above sea
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