European mouflon Harzgerode in 1906, followed by further releases in the Taunus and the Solling. In all cases, the mouflon favoured level or low-lying plains with forest cover and not, as expected, rocky, mountainous areas. Gradually they were mixed with varieties of domestic sheep, especially crossbreeding with the racka. After the European mouflon population declined during the First World War, in the German Reich alone about 2,500 were counted in 1938. After a further decline during the Second World War, the number of European mouflon worldwide in 1954 was only about 4,500. After that, numbers recovered due to careful management and grew
Domesticated red fox and he made it genetically domesticated." Russian domesticated foxes exhibit a variety of coat color mutations, including red, silver (black), platinum, cross, and Georgian white, the lattermost being a color exclusive to the Russian breeding project. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of fox breeding in the late Iron Age on Orkney Island off the north coast of Scotland. After the attack of the Vikings in Scotland around 800, the breeding is said to have stopped. Domesticated red fox The Russian domesticated red fox is a form of the wild red fox ("Vulpes vulpes") which has been domesticated to an extent, under