The Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) is a subspecies of argali sheep, named after Marco Polo. Their habitat are the mountainous regions of Central...
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Look up Marco Polo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Marco Polo was a 13th-century Italian explorer. Marco Polo may also refer to: Marco Polo (producer)...
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Marco Polo (/ˈmɑːrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ/ ; Venetian: [ˈmaɾko ˈpolo]; Italian: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo] ; c. 1254 – 8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer...
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Argali (redirect from Mountain sheep)
maximum reported mass of 356 kg (785 lb). The Pamir argali (also called Marco Polo sheep, for they were first described by that traveler), O. a. polii, is the...
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of Nature as globally threatened. These include the snow leopard, Marco Polo sheep, Siberian musk deer, markhor, urial, and the Asiatic black bear. Other...
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evidence of competition between the domestic sheep being illegally grazed and the wild Marco Polo sheep, and that most of the illegal hunting was not...
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lynx, wolf, brown bear, stone marten, red fox, Pallas's cat, ibex, Marco Polo sheep, and urial. Remote and largely above the tree line, poaching and overgrazing...
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kilometres (5,400 sq mi) was established in 1984 mainly to protect the rare Marco Polo sheep and Tibetan argali. It has since also served to protect other species...
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The valley is part of the Taxkorgan Nature Reserve. The protected Marco Polo sheep is only found in the wild around this area. The region is often referred...
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conservancy, in an attempt to reverse the depopulation of ibex, bears, Marco Polo sheep and lynx. The community generates income from commercial hunting, and...
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Kyrgyz herders for summer pasture. Side valleys support populations of Marco Polo sheep, snow leopard, ibex, and brown bear. In the past the valley was part...
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member of this subfamily is called a caprine. Prominent members include sheep and goats, with some other members referred to as goat antelopes. Some earlier...
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Pothohar Plateau include the Bharal, Eurasian lynx, Himalayan goral, Marco Polo sheep, Marmot (in Deosai National Park) and Yellow-throated marten and birds...
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Rakaposhi mountain range is the home of endangered species such as Marco Polo sheep, snow leopard, brown bear, and wolves.[citation needed] Rakaposhi is...
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Himalayan brown bear subspecies, the near-endangered Marco Polo sheep, and various other types of sheep and goats. The Long-tailed marmot is common. Ecoregions...
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was set up to protect local, endangered wildlife, specifically the Marco Polo sheep. Skardu Valley is located at confluence of Indus and Shiger rivers...
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national park include the brown bear, snow leopard, wolves, markhor, Marco Polo sheep, brown-headed gulls and bar-headed geese. In 2008, the national park...
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(Panthera uncia syn. Uncia uncia), markhor (Capra falconeri) (wild goat), Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii), and yak (Bos grunniens and Bos mutus). Karimabad...
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Footsteps of Marco Polo is a 2008 PBS documentary film detailing Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell's 1993 retracing of Marco Polo's journey from Venice...
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regions. The Marco Polo sheep exclusively live in the Wakhan Corridor region of north-east Afghanistan. Foxes, wolves, otters, deer, wild sheep, lynx and...
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Pothohar Plateau include the bharal, Eurasian lynx, Himalayan goral, Marco Polo sheep, marmot (in Deosai National Park) and yellow-throated marten and birds...
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offshoot of the Taxkorgan Valley is the only place in China where Marco Polo sheep can be found. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan) (2001). 外交部檔案叢書:...
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livelihood through the cultivation and farming of animals including Marco Polo sheep, ibexes, and yaks. Local castes settled in this area are the, Kakakhail...
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goat, and Bactrian deer. Other wild creatures of Afghanistan include Marco Polo sheep, urials, ibex, bears, wolves, foxes, hyenas, jackals, and mongooses...
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there were 140 yurt households. The valley supports populations of Marco Polo sheep, ibex, and other wild animals. The naturalist George Schaller has advocated...
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leopards. The mountainous north hosts a variety of animals like the Marco Polo sheep, urial, markhor goat, ibex goat, Asian black bear, and Himalayan brown...
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mammal species, including markhor, musk deer, snow leopard, urial, and Marco Polo sheep. Deosai National Park Gilgit Baltistan 2016 ix, x (natural) Deosai...
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trade and ancient commodities transactions between the East and West. Marco Polo wrote that Balas ruby could be found under the "Syghinan" (Shighnan) mountain...
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fifties he led an expedition to Siberia to collect specimens of the Marco Polo sheep in 1921. DeSormo, Maitland, John Bird Burnham, Klondiker, Adirondacker...
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species of bharal, Eurasian lynx, Himalayan goral, Indian leopard, Marco Polo sheep, marmot (in Deosai National Park) and yellow-throated marten and birds...
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