Mouflon and being black on the shoulders. In Corsica this animal is named Mufro. Pallas, grouping goats and sheep together into a single genus "Aegoceros", distinguished the mouflon from the argali at species level in 1811 ("Ae. musimon" and "Ae. argali" respectively). In 1840 Blyth proposed that the Armenian and Cypriot sheep were also separate species, which he named "Ovis Gmelinii" (after "the younger Gmelin") and "O. Ophion" (from a name recorded by Pliny). Current taxonomy in some sources such as MSW and ITIS treats the mouflons and urials as subspecies of the domestic sheep, "Ovis aries" Linn. 1758. However ICZN
Somali wild ass home to eleven Somali Wild Asses, the largest population of Somali Wild Asses in North America. The park received its first herd from the Basel Zoo in 1981. Their first foal was born in 1986. Since then, 49 foals have been born, the most recent being a female born on March 17, 2018. San Diego Zoo Global also works to help save this endangered species in the wild. Domestic donkeys found in Italy are typically descended from the Somali wild ass, as opposed to those from other European countries where domesticated stock are usually descended from the Nubian wild ass.