What is Snow sheep?
{{Speciesbox | image =Ovis nivicola (=O. canadensis nivicola) by Joseph Smit.jpg | status = LC | status_ref =<ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15740/5076357 |publisher=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |title=Snow Sheep: ''Ovis dalli'' |author1=Harris, R.B. |author2= Tsytsulina. K. |year=2008 |accessdate=July 23, 2021 |volume= 2008 |page=e.T15740A5076357 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T15740A5076357.en}}</ref> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Ovis nivicola | authority = | range_map =Ovis-nivicola-map.png |synonyms= | synonyms_ref= }} The '''snow sheep''' (''Ovis nivicola'') is a [[sheep]] in the family [[Bovidae]]. It lives in [[Siberia]].<ref name=Draft /><ref name=Bunch>{{cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/97/1/21/2187549|accessdate=July 23, 2021|title=Phylogenetic Analysis of Snow Sheep (Ovis nivicola) and Closely Related Taxa|author1= T. D. Bunch|author2= C. Wu|author3= Y.-P. Zhang|author4= S. Wang|volume =97|journal=Journal of Heredity|issue=1|year=2006|pages=21–30|doi=10.1093/jhered/esi127|pmid=16267166}}</ref> Scientists put the snow sheep in the subgenus ''Pachyceros''. They are in the same group as [[bighorn sheep]] and [[thinhorn sheep]]. The bighorns and thinhorns live in North America and the snow sheep live in Eurasia. The snow sheep used to be called the Asiatic bighorn sheep. Scientists do not all agree on how many subspecies of snow sheep there are:<ref name=Bunch /><ref name=ST>{{cite news|url=https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0879-meet-siberias-new-bighorn-sheep-a-super-climber-with-a-taste-for-eating-coal/|publisher=Siberian Times|accessdate=July 23, 2021|date=February 17, 2017|title=Meet Siberia's new snow sheep, a 'super-climber' with a taste for eating coal}}</ref> *Koryak (''Ovis nivicola koryakorum'') *Kamchatka sheep (''Ovis nivicola nivicola'') *Okhotsk sheep (''Ovis nivicola alleni'') *Yablonov sheep (''Ovis nivicola potanini'') *Putorian sheep (''Ovis nivicola borealis'') *Yakut sheep (''Ovis niv