Ewe

Weight

35 kg – 110 kg

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

17 years – 22.8 years

Diet

Herbivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

159 days

Young per litter or clutch

1.22

Age at maturity

18 months – 2.38 years

Litters or clutches a year

1

Active

Day and night (cathemeral)

Lifestyle

Terrestrial

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The ewe is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderArtiodactyla
5. familyBovidae
6. genusOvis
7. SpeciesOvis aries Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms Aegoceros ammon, Aegoceros musimon, Ovis ammon musimon, Ovis aries aries, Ovis aries arkal, Ovis aries musimon, Ovis aries ophion, Ovis aries orientalis, Ovis domestic, Ovis gmelinii musimon, Ovis laristanica, Ovis musimon, Ovis musimon musimon, Ovis musimon ophion, Ovis ophion, Ovis orientalis, Ovis orientalis musimon, Ovis orientalis ophion, Ovis orientalis typica, Ovis vignei arkal

Catalogue of Life

NT, Near Threatened

Argali

Ovis ammon

Bovidae

LC, Least Concern

Bighorn sheep

Ovis canadensis

Bovidae

VU, Vulnerable

Urial

Ovis vignei

Bovidae

T

Thin-horn

Ovis dalli

BovidaeNo free photo yet

S

Snow sheep

Ovis nivicola

BovidaeNo free photo yet

M

Mouflon

Ovis gmelini

BovidaeNo free photo yet

CompareEwe vs ArgaliEwe vs Bighorn sheepEwe vs UrialEwe vs Thin-horn

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@misc{ewe_2026,
  title = {Ewe (Ovis aries)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ewe},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}