🐃Barbary sheep
El arruí, arrui, muflón del Atlas o carnero de berbería (Ammotragus lervia) es un bóvido de la subfamilia Caprinae nativo de las zonas rocosas del Sáhara y el Sahel, del género monotípico Ammotragus. Comienza a abundar en fincas privadas de caza, en donde es más difícil enumerar su presencia. Los nombres arruí y aoudad, como se le conoce en varias lenguas europeas, proceden del idioma bereber. También está presente en reservas y cotos de caza de México, Sur de Estados Unidos, Región de Murcia, Comunidad Valenciana en las sierras más altas de la Marina Baja de Alicante, área de Jijona (comarca del Campo de Alicante), zonas serranas del Hoya de Alcoy y el Condado de Cocentaina, y sierra del Cid (cercana a Petrel). Posiblemente está población proviene de animales huidos de vallados cinegéticos. En Canarias y en Andalucía hay poblaciones introducidas de arruí.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 93 kg
- Body length
- 1.55 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 22 years
Everything we know about the Barbary sheep
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass93 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 93 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.55 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass210 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan22 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length5 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.4 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation152 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 149 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range7.06 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l93 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Barbary sheep yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusAmmotragus
- ›speciesAmmotragus lervia
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- subfamilyCaprinae
- genusAmmotragus
All 16 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyCaprinae
- genusAmmotragus
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