Myotragus of the island of Majorca ("Myotragus pepgonellae") indicate that "Myotragus balearicus", in spite of being a browsing animal, descended originally from grazers. The closest related species to "Myotragus" are ovine, such as the extinct "Nesogoral" of the Plio-Pleistocene of Sardinia, the old "Gallogoral" of France (possible mainland ancestor of both "Myotragus" and "Nesogoral"), "Ovis" (present sheep and mouflon) and the mountain goats of Central Asia. The last ancestor common to "Myotragus" and "Nesogoral" arrived at Majorca and Sardinia around 6 million years ago, a time at which the Straits of Gibraltar were closed and the Mediterranean Sea was a small
Set animal the head of a donkey, it is possible the donkey was the inspiration for the Set animal. Others have speculated that it is a purely fantastic or composite animal, which never existed in nature; this was the opinion of Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge. Because the name "sha" is not as familiar as that of Set, and has no independent mythology associated with it, the animal is commonly referred to as "Set" or "Set animal" or the "Typhonian animal", so-called because the Greeks equated Set or Sutekh with the monster Typhon. Set animal In ancient Egyptian art, the Set animal,