Sheep

Sheep

Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep.

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Famous quotes containing the word sheep:

    “Better to repair the pen after the sheep have escaped than not at all.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “You shall not watch your neighbor’s ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 22:1.