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Ibex grazes on dry grass in snow-covered Spiti Valley. Blue sheep forage on snow covered barren mountains in Spiti. Blue sheep, also called bharal, either of two species of sheeplike mammals, family Bovidae that inhabit upland slopes in a wide range throughout China, from Inner Mongolia to the Himalayas. Despite their name, blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur) are neither blue nor sheep. As morphological, behavioural, and molecular analyses have shown, these slate grey to pale brown sheep-looking caprines are actually more closely related to goats (genus Capra) than to sheep (genus Ovis). Adult males have beautiful, rather large, backwards-sweeping horns, whereas females have very small horns. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest c
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