Ram

Weight

35 kg – 110 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

17 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Herbivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

22.8 years

Main food

bromus tectorum, centaurea maculosa, dietary fiber, euphorbia virgata, forb, grass and 3 moresrc for Main food

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

159 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

1.22src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

18 months – 2.38 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1src for Litters or clutches a year

Active

Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The ram is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

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 musimon, 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 LifeiNaturalistTAXREFWikidataWikidataWoRMS

NT, Near Threatened

Argali

Ovis ammon

Bovidae

LC, Least Concern

Bighorn sheep

Ovis canadensis

Bovidae

VU, Vulnerable

Urial

Ovis vignei

Bovidae

LC, Least Concern

Dall sheep

Ovis dalli

Bovidae

LC, Least Concern

Snow sheep

Ovis nivicola

Bovidae

M

Mouflon

Ovis gmelini

BovidaeNo free photo yet

CompareRam vs ArgaliRam vs Bighorn sheepRam vs UrialRam vs Dall sheep

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@misc{ovis_aries_2026,
  title = {Ram (Ovis aries)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ovis-aries},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}