Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: sheep

Photo: A male transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) at Tierpark Berlin.

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A male transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) at Tierpark Berlin. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Photo: A male transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) at Tierpark Berlin.

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A male transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) at Tierpark Berlin. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Photo: A male transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) at Tierpark Berlin.

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A male transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) at Tierpark Berlin. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Photo: A male Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) at Tierpark Berlin.

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A male Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) at Tierpark Berlin. This species is listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List.

Photo: A male Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) at Tierpark Berlin.

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A male Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) at Tierpark Berlin. This species is listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List.

Photo: A male Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) at Tierpark Berlin.

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A male Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) at Tierpark Berlin. This species is listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List.

Photo: A male transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) at Tierpark Berlin.

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A male transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) at Tierpark Berlin.

Photo: A male Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur nayaur) at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling, India.

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A male Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur nayaur) at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling, India.

Photo: A female desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

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A female desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

Photo: A female desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

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A female desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

Photo: Desert bighorn sheep at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

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Desert bighorn sheep at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

Photo: A male desert bighorn sheep ram (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

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A male desert bighorn sheep ram (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

Photo: Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

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Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

Photo: Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

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Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.

Photo: A Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia blainei) at the Dallas Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN.

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A Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia blainei) at the Dallas Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN.

Photo: A Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia blainei) at the Dallas Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN.

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A Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia blainei) at the Dallas Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN.

Photo: A Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia blainei) at the Dallas Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN.

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A Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia blainei) at the Dallas Zoo. This species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN.

Photo: A male Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur nayaur) at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling, India.

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A male Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur nayaur) at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling, India.

Photo: Dall sheep in Denali National Park in Alaska's Interior.

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Dall sheep in Denali National Park in Alaska’s Interior.

A St. Croix sheep (Ovis aries) at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.

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A St. Croix sheep (Ovis aries) at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.

Photo: A Gulf Coast native sheep at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.

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A Gulf Coast native sheep at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.

Photo: A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman's herd of sheep in Chile's Atacama desert.

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A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman’s herd of sheep in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman's herd of sheep in Chile's Atacama desert.

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A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman’s herd of sheep in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman's herd of sheep in Chile's Atacama desert.

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A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman’s herd of sheep in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: A lamb leaps up after being relieved of his tail for better sanitation purposes by Bureau of Land Management workers on federal grazing lands in southern Wyoming.

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A lamb leaps up after being relieved of his tail for better sanitation purposes by Bureau of Land Management workers on federal grazing lands in southern Wyoming.

Photo: A child is helped ride a sheep during the "mutton busting" event at the annual rodeo in Leadore, Idaho.

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A child is helped ride a sheep during the “mutton busting” event at the annual rodeo in Leadore, Idaho.

Photo: Sheep gather in a pen at the Broadbent Ranch in Granger, Wyoming.

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Sheep gather in a pen at the Broadbent Ranch in Granger, Wyoming.

Photo: A dall sheep along the edge of Polychrome, a mountain pass in Denali National Park.

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A dall sheep along the edge of Polychrome, a mountain pass in Denali National Park.

Photo: Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley's ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

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Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley’s ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

Photo: Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley's ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

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Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley’s ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

Photo: Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley's ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

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Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley’s ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

Photo: Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley's ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

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Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley’s ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

Photo: Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley's ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

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Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley’s ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

Photo: Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley's ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

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Activity by energy companies, especially road building on Pauline McCauley’s ranch near Farmington, New Mexico has let to a sharp drop in her sheep herd.

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